BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Edna Marrett Wilcocks
(m Fred J. Wilcocks)

May 10 1887 - November 28 1969

B.C. Society of Fine Arts (Member 1926-1930)
B.C. Society of Fine Arts/B.C. Society of Artists: Exhibitor's Timeline


Edna Marrett was born in Portland, Maine. She studied at Vassar, at the Art Students League in New York, and at the Boston Museum School. She worked for the Red Cross in France during World War One, where she met her future husband Fred Wilcocks.

After the war they moved to Calgary, Alberta, where she taught school. The couple briefly moved to Vancouver, where she exhibited her artwork from 1926 to 1930. The 1927 City Directory lists F.J. Wilcocks as employed by J.B. Leyland as an Insurance Agent, residence at 6 - 2230 Cornwall. Edna is not listed. By 1929 he had his own insurance business at home. He is not listed in the 1931 Directory.

Edna is listed in the exhibition catalogue of the 1930 Spring Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts as a member, and as one of the Executive Committee. She exhibited her work with the group in May 1926, June 1927, May 1929, and November 1929.

She also exhibited work at the Vancouver Exhibition in 1926, and with the Island Arts and Crafts Society in 1928.

They moved to Altadena, California in the early 1930s, where she taught school for over twenty years. She also exhibited with the California Water Colour Society, Pasadena Art Institute, and other groups.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1926 May 8 - 15 BCSFA   18th Annual Exhibition Miss Betsey Spohn (Loaned by Dr. Spohn)
A New England Homestead
Stanley Park
1927 June 10 - 25 BCSFA   19th Annual Exhibition Lady in Japanese Priest Coat
Bunty
1929 May 18 - June 8 BCSFA   21st Annual Exhibition Fisherman's Cove
Portrait

References

Island Arts and Crafts Society - List of Exhibitors

https://www.askart.com/artist/Edna_Marrett_Wilcocks/10058428/Edna_Marrett_Wilcocks.aspx

Clippings

"Just as I was going to look at the four examples by E. Marett Wilcocks, somebody came up to talk to me about the political situation, so that's that."
      From "B.C. Society of Fine Arts" by Diogenes
      Vancouver Province, November 13 1930

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