BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Edgar Charles Thrupp

c1864 - June 27 1951

Vancouver Sketch Club


Edgar Charles Thrupp exhibited at the Vancouver Exhibition in 1930, 1931, and 1932, as a member of the Vancouver Sketch Club.

In 1932 he was a signatory to an agreement to boycott the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa for their exhibition and purchase policies related to Canadian artists.

A notation on the Vancouver Art Gallery index card for him noted that he was an "instrument man" for the City of Vancouver.

He died in Coquitlam at the age of 87, in 1951.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1930 Aug. 6 - 16 VanExh   Oil Paintings & Water-colours The Gypsy
Nat Alyn, Flintshire
1931 Aug. 22 - 29 VanExh   Vancouver Sketch Club Exhibit Brady's Beach, V.I.
Nearly Midsummer
1932 May 7 Sketch Club   Monthly Exhibition Portrait of R.P. Wilson
1932 Aug. 29 - Sept. 5 VanExh   Vancouver Sketch Club Exhibit Grappler Creek, V.I.
Mt. Alfred
A New Landmark

References

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

Clippings

"G.P. Thrupp's (sic) water color of R.P. Wilson from the life class drew attention, the figure standing well on its feet, though there was a little weakness in color."
      From "Sketch Club Showing Has Fine Pictures" by D.S.M.
      Vancouver Sun, May 9 1932

" ... the 118 artists who have signed the agreement to date ... include ... E.C. Thrapp (sic) ... "
      From "Canadian Artists Unite to Boycott National Gallery" by The Canadian Press
      Montreal Gazette, December 8 1932


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