BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Mary Leonora Wallich (m Collings Wallich)
(also Wallach, Wallick)

c1865 (1867?) - September 18 1938

Island Arts and Crafts Association
Vancouver Exhibition Association


Mary L. Wallich was born in Norfolk, England, and married her first cousin Collings Wallich in 1890. He was a tea planter in Darjeeling, India, where their first child was born in 1896. A daughter was born in England in 1897, and later married into the Springett family of Maple Bay.

The family emigrated to Canada from England and arrived in Cowichan "in 1911" (likely 1910 based on exhibited artwork), where they built a house called "Cotswald" overlooking the Cowichan Bay Road. She was organist at the St. Andrew's Church at Cowichan Station for many years.

She exhibited artwork with the Island Arts and Crafts Association from 1910 to 1936. She also exhibited under the name Mrs. C. Wallich. Under the name Mary L. Wallick she exhibited artwork at the Vancouver Exhibition in 1926. The watercolours were of Sproat Lake and Maple Bay on Vancouver Island.

An artist noted as Miss Mary Wallich exhibited artwork with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts in the 1927 annual exhibition. This may or may not be the same artist.

In addition to painting she wrote short stories and poems that were published in the local and Victoria papers.

Wallich died at Duncan in 1938 at the age of 73. Her husband survived her.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1910 September IACS   1st Annual Exhibition Indian Village from Cowichan Bay
Indian Shack
1912 Oct. 17 - 19 IACS Alexandra Club   3rd Annual Cowichan
At Cowichan
Cowichan
Three sketches
1913 Oct. 16 - 18 IACS Alexandra Club   4th Annual Glacier above Comox
Sunset, Cowichan Bay
Lake of Geneva
Cowichan Bay
Cowichan Flats
Koksilah
1919 Oct. 23 - 29 IACS Belmont Bldg.   10th Annual Sunset Over Mt. Prevost
A Grey Day at Cowichan Bay
Genoa Bay at Sunset
Tzouhalem Mountain at Dawn
1920 Oct. 25 - 30 IACS Belmont Bldg.   11th Annual Tree Poppy (Romnea)
View from Cotswold
Cowichan Bay
1921 Oct. 18 - 25 IACS Belmont Bldg.   12th Annual A Bright Corner
Mt. Baker from Mill Bay
View from Mill Bay
View on Cowichan Bay
1922 Oct. 19 - 25 IACS Belmont Bldg.   13th Annual From Beacon Hill
At Maple Bay
Maxwell's Mount, Maple Bay
1923 Oct. 23 - 30 IACS H.B.C. Bldg.   14th Annual Gladioli
Mt. Klitze
San Juan Island
1925 Oct. 20 - 31 IACS Crystal Garden   16th Annual Sunset, Cowichan Bay
Forest Fire
Marine
Separation Point
1925 December IACS Crystal Garden   NGC Loan Exhibition Marine
Sproat Lake
1926 August Vancouver Exhibition Sproat Lake
Maple Bay
1926 Oct. 19 - 30 IACS Crystal Garden   17th Annual Beach at Parksville
Beach at Parksville
Separation Point, Cowichan Bay
1927 June 10 - 25 BCSFA   19th Annual Exhibition Mill Bay
1927 Oct. 25 - 31 IACS Belmont Bldg.   18th Annual View from Sooke River
Crofton
Farewell Summer
View from Nanaimo
1928 Oct. 23 - 31 IACS Belmont Bldg.   19th Annual Seed Farm, near Duncan
Sweet Peas
1929 Oct. 22 - 31 IACS Belmont Bldg.   20th Annual Wisteria
Christmas cards (crafts)
1930 Oct. 28 - Nov. 8 IACS Board of Trade Bldg.   21st Annual Jervis Inlet, B.C.
Pastel
1936 Oct. 26 - 31 IACS Coast Hall   27th Annual Still Life (blue poppy)

References

Island Arts and Crafts Society - List of Exhibitors

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (no certificate); husband death (refer to BCVS)

MEMORIES NEVER LOST compiled by the Pioneer Researchers
      "Stories of the pioneer women of the Cowichan Valley and a Brief History of the Valley 1850-1920"
      Includes a 1-page biography of Wallich and a photograph of her.
      ISBN 0-88925-724-8, hardcover, published 1986.

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