BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Wilfred Henry Tassell

December 8 1880 - March 2 1966

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Wilfred Henry Tassell was born in Northampton, England in 1880. He died in Kelowna in 1966 at the age of 85.

He exhibited his watercolour paintings in the annual B.C. Artists exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 1936 to 1940, in 1944, and from 1946 to 1948. He was living in Kelowna in 1948.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1936 Sept. 18 - Oct. 11 VAG   B.C. Artists 5th Annual Selkirks from Marion Lake, B.C.
1937 Sept. 17 - Oct. 10 VAG   B.C. Artists 6th Annual Inkanepe Indian Reserve
1938 Sept. 16 - Oct. 9 VAG   B.C. Artists 7th Annual South Pender Island
1939 Sept. 15 - Oct. 8 VAG   B.C. Artists 8th Annual Paul Mt. Kamloops, B.C.
Okanagan Landing, B.C.
1940 Sept. 20 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 9th Annual Similkameen Valley
1944 Sept. 23 - Oct. 22 VAG   B.C. Artists 13th Annual Hedley, B.C.
1946 Sept. 21 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 15th Annual Indian Church, Penticton, B.C.
The Red Barn
1947 Sept. 20 - Oct. 12 VAG   B.C. Artists 16th Annual A Mill on Shuswap Lake
1948 Sept. 18 - Oct. 10 VAG   B.C. Artists 17th Annual Eagle Bluff, Enderby, B.C.
Black Mountain, Kelowna, B.C.

References

WHO'S WHO IN NORTHWEST ART (refer to WWNA41)
      Brief entry for Tassell, address at Box 664, Kelowna B.C.

ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
      1 reference cited for Tassell: Who's Who in Northwest Art (see above).

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (refer to BCVS)

Clippings

"Artists represented in the group comprise the following ... W.H. Tassell ... "
      From "Maritime Art Association"
      Vancouver Art Gallery Bulletin, November (?) 1939

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