The Gallery took a 10% commission on sales from all of these exhibitions, to help defray the expenses incurred from putting on the shows, such as postage and envelopes for mailouts, printed labels & catalogues.

In 1937 the Gallery was requested to send a loan exhibition from the Sixth Annual show to Vernon. Seventy works were selected and shipped to the Okanagan. After that exhibition they were shown in Kamloops and Edmonton AB. The Editor has not yet found a separate list of the 70 works.

In 1939 the Exhibition Committee selected "40 watercolour paintings which had formed part of the 8th Annual B.C. Artists' Exhibition" to be sent to Sackville, New Brunswick, after which they went on tour in the Maritime provinces. Refer to "Maritime Art Association" for more information.

  
Honorable Mentions, 1939 & 1941 B.C. Artists' exhibitions

In 1945 twenty artworks were selected from the Fourteenth Annual exhibition to be toured by the Federation of Canadian Artists. These selections were noted in a copy of the exhibition catalogue on file at the Vancouver Art Gallery Library. The Editor does not know where or when the selections were exhibited.

In 1946 forty artworks were selected from the Fifteenth Annual exhibition to be toured by the Federation of Canadian Artists and U.B.C.. These selections were noted in a list from the FCA on file at the Vancouver Art Gallery Library. The Editor does not know where or when the selections were exhibited.

The pre-1950 catalogues are transcribed completely from the inaugural 1932 exhibition up to 1950, including all known annual exhibitions, summer exhibitions, and Christmas exhibitions. Five travelling shows are listed. Every artist listed in them has a biographical file in BC Artists listing every work that they exhibited. The remaining catalogues from 1951 to 1968 are referenced to all participating artists in the artist index with "BCA" and a year. Thus, for example, BCA56, for an artist who had work in the 1956 Annual exhibition, or BCA56-61 to indicate a range of exhibitions.

The selection process for the exhibitions varied over the years, and the jury or their selections were frequently a hotly debated topic in the art community. In response, the art gallery did their best by engaging professional curators to jury. In some cases almost no work was accepted, and the jury's comments in the 33rd Annual catalogue were particularly scathing about the lack of quality and originality in work entered. Up until 1945 there were only 2 BC Artists' exhibitions that were non-jury.

In September 1948 artist W.P. Weston wrote an article about this topic. It was published in the Vancouver Art Gallery Bulletin, prior to the (juried) seventeenth annual B.C. Artists' exhibition.

The second-to-last exhibition in 1967 was a juried show, and the jury of one selected only 10 out of 400 entries as being worthy of exhibition. I personally think that this probably surprised everyone. The exhibition committee would have made considerably more space available for the show than was actually required. Artists protested, of course.

For the 37th and final B.C. Artists exhibition in 1968, the art gallery threw in the towel, and exhibited one artwork - unjuried - from every artist who submitted. As a result, 473 artists showed their work, noted in the artist index or artist biographies as BCA68. It resulted in a very interesting mix of professional and amateur artists.