BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Alice Maud Winlow
(nee Pickard, m Frederick Jacob Winlow)

September 18 1879 - February 19 1946

Vancouver Poetry Society
Canadian Authors' Association (Hon. Secretary)



From The Gold Stripe, 1918

Alice M. Winlow was born in Ontario. She married Frederick Winlow, who in 1943 was noted in the City directory as a Fisheries Inspector.

She was noted as one of the "contributors" to the Gold Stripe Volume 1 in 1918. There is a photograph of her, with her name and initials "A.M.W." beside it, and at least one of her poems is published (with the initials A.M.W.). Another poem titled "At Dawn" was published in the Gold Stripe Volume 2 in 1919, noted only as by "A.M.W.".

She exhibited work with the Vancouver Sketch Club in 1923.

Winlow wrote reviews of art exhibitions for the British Columbia Monthly, including:
      Semi-Annual Exhibit by the Vancouver Sketch Club, June 1923
      Impressions of the Sketch Club, March 1924
      Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Art, June 1924
      September Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club, September 1924

The September 1926 issue of the British Columbia Monthly had a brief biography of Winlow, written by Bertha Lewis.

Winlow's writing - prose and poems - was regularly published in the Monthly:
      Musical Prose, August 1924
      Blue Winds, August 1924
      Reconciliation, October 1924
      Moonlight On Bute Inlet, April 1925
      Lake Louise, 1926
      The Christmas Tree That Sang, December 1926

She had a poem titled "Garibaldi Mountain" published in the Museum and Art Notes, AHSAV, June 1931, page 54.

She exhibited work at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the 1943 B.C. Artists exhibition. The artist was living in Vancouver.

Winlow died in Vancouver in 1946 at the age of 66, her occupation was noted as "At Home."


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1923 December VSC Semi-Annual ?
1924 July Sketch Club    Midsummer Exhibition (irises and lupins)
(pink roses)
1924 October Sketch Club    October Exhibition Marigolds
1924 December Sketch Club    Semi-Annual Exhibition Yellow Roses
1943 Sept. 25 - Oct. 20 VAG   B.C. Artists 12th Annual Lamplight Study

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.

MUSEUM AND ART NOTES, Vol. VI, No. 2
      June 1931; 76 pages, illustrated black and white
      Published by the Art, Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver
      Includes poem by Winlow.

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

Clippings

"Those exhibiting included .. Mrs. F. Winlow ..."
      From "Sketch Club Semi-Annual Art Exhibition"
      B.C. Ladies' Mirror, December 15 1923

"The foregoing poem was read with color effects and music as one of the modern compositions used to illustrate Mrs. Alice M. Winlow's paper on "The Relationship Between Modern Poetry and Modern Music," given before the Vancouver Poetry Club on May 17th."
      British Columbia magazine, June 1924

"A flower picture, much admired, is a composition of irises and lupins. A symphony in shades and tints of purple, in which a fascinating shaft of light gives radiance to the royal color. A group of pink roses, delicately done, is by the same artist, Mrs. Alice M. Winlow, who shows the same delicate sense of color and spiritual interpretation of Beauty in her music and lyric poems."
      From "The Midsummer Exhibit of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Bertha Lewis
      British Columbia Monthly, July 1924

"There were a number of attractive flower studies - "Yellow Roses," by Mrs. A.M. Winlow, is a picture poem of subtle light, splendidly handled, and one of the best things at the exhibition."
      From "Semi-Annual Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Bertha Lewis
      British Columbia Monthly, January 1925

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