Vancouver, Nov. 16. - For several months a movement has been taking shape among the
artists of British Columbia with a view to the formation of a society of
painters and other art workers that should enable them to combine their interests,
stimulate a taste for art on the part of the public, and have periodical exhibitions
of paintings, drawings and sculptures. The outcome of various meetings since last May
was a united one held last week, when the following list of members of the new
undertaking passed muster and various other inaugural business was done. It is intended
to limit the membership of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts - that
is the appellation chosen - to 36 members. The names are Messrs.
T.W.Fripp,
S.P. Judge,
H.J. De Forest,
Claude Gray, A.R.C.A.,
B. McEvoy,
N.H. Hawkins,
J. Mackintosh Gow,
Mrs. Bamfylde Daniell (Victoria),
Mrs. Blair-Thomas,
David Blair,
John Kyle, A.R.C.A.,
Miss M. Carr,
Miss Mills,
J. Fitzmaurice,
Noel Bursill,
J. Thornton Sharpe,
S. Maclure,
Mrs. Beanlands.
Future plans were discussed at the meeting and it was resolved to hold the initial
exhibition of the society in March next. It was determined to invite His Honor the
Lieutenant-Governor to be the president of the society, and Messrs. T.W.Fripp
and B. McEvoy were elected vice-presidents,
S.P. Judge, secretary, and John Kyle,
treasurer, with an executive committee consisting of Messrs. H.J. De Forest,
Gray and Hawkins,
Mrs. Blair-Thomas and Miss Carr.
Arrangements are being made for a suitable room for exhibitions, and annual subscribers
will have a season ticket and other privileges such as are customary in other societies
of the kind. The new society will seek incorporation under the Friendly Societies act.
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