BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Reginald Palliser Wilson

c1871 - April 9, 1946

Vancouver Sketch Club
Federation of Canadian Artists (Founding Member 1941)

Reginald P. Wilson exhibited work at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the 2nd Annual B.C. Artists exhibition in 1933. He was living in Vancouver, and had lived in the province since 1918, according to exhibition entry forms.

He also exhibited at the Vancouver Exhibition in 1930, representing the Vancouver Sketch Club.

In 1932 he was a signatory to an agreement to boycott the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa for their exhibition and purchase policies related to Canadian artists.

He was a founding member of the Federation of Canadian Artists in 1941.

According to BC Vital Statistics, he died in Vancouver in 1946 at the age of 75.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1930 Aug. 6 - 16 VanExh   Oil Paintings & Water-colours Mist on Grouse Mountain
1932 May 7 Sketch Club   Monthly Exhibition Portrait of Miss Coventry
1933 Sept. 22 - Oct. 15 VAG   B.C. Artists 2nd Annual From the Mouth of False Creek

References

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (refer to BCVS)

Clippings

"G.P. Thrupp's (sic) water color of R.P. Wilson from the life class drew attention, the figure standing well on its feet, though there was a little weakness in color. ... R.P. Wilson had a good pastel of Miss Coventry in the same group."
      From "Sketch Club Showing Has Fine Pictures" by D.S.M.
      Vancouver Sun, May 9 1932

" ... the 118 artists who have signed the agreement to date ... include ... Reginald P. Wilson ... "
      From "Canadian Artists Unite to Boycott National Gallery" by The Canadian Press
      Montreal Gazette, December 8 1932


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