BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Ivor Williams

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B.C. Society of Fine Arts


Williams exhibited with the RCA in 1918 in Ontario. His address was listed in the catalogue as "930 Burnsill Avenue, Collingwood East, Vancouver, B.C."


The Gold Stripe, 1918


The Gold Stripe, 1918

Ivor Williams had four of his illustrations published in the 1918 issue of The Gold Stripe.


The Gold Stripe, 1918

He exhibited his work in the 1919 New Westminster Exhibition (later the Provincial Exhibition), and in the 1920 Annual Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts, held at the Vancouver School Board offices on Hamilton Street.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1918 April 4 RCA   Toronto Exhibition The Lions, B.C. (chalk)
1918 November 21 RCA   Montreal Exhibition Evening Sky (pastel)
Vancouver city (pencil)
1920 September 18 - 25 BCSFA   Annual Exhibition Coughlan's
False Creek
Connaught Bridge
Morning Haze
A Summer Day, False Creek

References

THE GOLD STRIPE - VOLUME ONE
      1918, Christmas. Published by the Amputation Club of B.C., Vancouver
      216 pages (including text, advertisements and photographs)
      Heavily illustrated by many early Vancouver artists.

ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS - EXHIBITIONS & MEMBERS 1880 - 1979 (refer to RCA81)
      Exhibited 3 works in 2 exhibitions in 1918.

Clippings

""The Athens of South Vancouver." Really Collingwood seems to be earning that title. The Art of the municipality is gravitating towards Collingwood and giving that place quite a reputation. Mr. Ivor Williams, the clever artist, is a resident of Collingwood."
      From "The World's Window"
      Vancouver Daily World, August 21 1919

"Ivor Williams verges on a (?) impressionism in his pastel of a forest scene."
      From "Local Work is on View" by Bernard McEvoy
      Vancouver Province, October 2 1919


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