BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Dorothy (Pindy) Alyson Tisdall
(m James Alfred Barford)

February 10 1908 - February 27 1994

Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (Diploma 1930)
Vancouver School of Art Graduates' Association


Pindy Tisdall was born in Vancouver. She was in the second graduating class of the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, receiving her diploma in 1930.

The Spring 1936 edition of The Smock Pocket, the Vancouver School of Art Graduates' Association newsletter, noted that she "is teaching crafts to patients at the Vancouver General Hospital."

Tisdall married James Barford in Vancouver on December 21 1946. He was a 34-year old surveyor for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (later BC RAIL). She was 38 years old, occupation noted as Occupational Therapist, at home. She was living at 3809 Osler Ave.

She died in Vancouver in the Arbutus Manor Care Home age 86, she was widowed at the time. Her son Gouin Barford signed the death certificate.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1932 Sept. 17 - 30 PASOVAS   Club Exhibition Tooled Leather Floor Cushion (large)
Tooled Leather Floor Cushion (small)
Hand Woven Scarf

References

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

https://dhil.lib.sfu.ca/doceww/person/5179

Clippings

"In the Craft Work section ... a lovely tooled leather pouffe by Pindy Tisdall is a thing of joy - I only wish I owned it!"
      From "The Note Book" by Julia W. Henshaw
      Vancouver Sun, October 1 1932

"Other students who enjoyed the outing at the Royal Savory (sic) Hotel were ... Miss Tisdall ... "
      From "Art Students Hold Display of Summer Work"
      Vancouver Province, July 4 1933


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