BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
New since RELEASE 1.24:
222 new files, comprised of 145 new artist biographies;
13 exhibition catalogues transcribed with 1,443 artworks; 40 images added; an
additional 31 references and 18 clippings listed (14 transcribed); project manual
added, and more than 500 other files updated.
There are now 1,246 artist biographical files. More than 8,500 paintings are listed in exhibition catalogues and vertically in artist biographies. A printout of the entire project (1,667 htm files and 83 jpg images) takes over 2,560 pages.
With the addition of the Vancouver art school list of students (years 1925-30 have been summarized to date), as well as the previous Island Arts and Crafts Society all-time List of Exhibitors (issued in Release 1.24), many more early B.C. artists are referenced for the first time in this project.
ARTISTS:
Note regarding additional artist biographies:
29 of the new biographies were created by transcription of the 1949
Stanley Park in Pictures exhibition catalogue; 13 by transcription of
the 1930 Vancouver Exhibition catalogue; and eight by transcription of the
1901 B.C. Letters Number VII. Almost all of the additional
new biographies were created by transcription of the 3rd and 15th Annual
B.C. Artists exhibitions. New biographies tend to have very little
information other than the artist's name and a listing for one or two artworks.
Also, at this stage in the AAEV project, a high percentage of important B.C. artists
already have biographies, and new biographies tend to be for obscure artists with a
limited exhibition record.
ORGANIZATIONS:
B.C. Pictorialists Society
Savary Island Heritage Society
U.B.C. Alumni Society
REFERENCES:
THE NORTHERN CORDILLERAN (1913)
ROD, GUN AND PALETTE IN THE HIGH ROCKIES (1914)
STORIES OF EARLY BRITISH COLUMBIA (1914)
CANADIAN ART - ITS ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT (1943)
THE INDIAN SPEAKS (1943)
A FAIRY'S GARLAND OF B.C. FLOWERS (1943)
VANCOUVER SCHOOLS DIAMOND JUBILEE SOUVENIR PROGRAMME (1946)
BANFF SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS - PROSPECTUS (1960)
ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ART ANNUAL REPORT 1964-65 (1965)
E.J. HUGHES - RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION (1967)
THE FINE ARTS IN VANCOUVER, 1886 - 1930: AN HISTORICAL SURVEY (1969)
FIFTY YEARS - The Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour
1925 - 1975 (1976)
A BORDER OF BEAUTY - Arthur Lismer's Pen and Pencil (1977)
ARTISTS FROM THE SEA 1778 - 1793 (1978)
IN THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS - Early Mountaineering in British Columbia (1980)
E.J. HUGHES - 1931 - 1982. A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION (1983)
NOT JUST PIN MONEY (1984)
EMPRESS TO THE ORIENT (1991)
EMIL RIZEK: AN AUSTRIAN ARTIST IN INDONESIA (1996)
BUTTERFLIES OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (2001)
INDEX TO NINETEENTH-CENTURY CANADIAN CATALOGUES of ART (2004)
MAGNETIC ISLE - Gladys Bloomfield's Savary (2005)
DOROTHY BURNETT - BOOKBINDER (2007)
INDEX TO NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA EXHIBITION CATALOGUES and
CHECKLISTS 1880 - 1930 (2007)
F.H. VARLEY - PORTRAITS INTO THE LIGHT (2007)
ARTISTS IN THEIR STUDIOS - WHERE ART IS BORN (2007)
See References for more information about each title.
CLIPPINGS:
BRITISH COLUMBIA LETTERS No. VII by
(unknown) 1901.
LOCAL WORK IS ON VIEW by
Bernard McEvoy 1919.
COMING ART SCHOOL by
(unknown) 1925.
B.C. SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS by
Bernard McEvoy 1928.
B.C. SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS by
Bernard McEvoy 1930.
(Alec Dalgleish tribute by J.W.G. Macdonald) by
Reta W. Meyers 1934.
(art school summer camps) by
Reta W. Meyers 1934.
(B.C. College of Art posters) by
Reta W. Meyers 1934.
PASOVAS CLUB HAS SPLENDID ANNUAL SHOW by
Reta W. Meyers 1934.
PASOVAS ART SHOW by
(unknown) 1934.
FINE PASOVAS ART EXHIBITION by
(unknown) 1936.
PASOVAS EXHIBIT by
(unknown) 1936.
(artist information) by
Grace Melvin 1961.
Charles H. Scott obituary 1965.
"CHARLES JOHN COLLINGS: THE RECLUSE OF THE ROCKIES" by Maria
Tippett 1977, (see C.J. Collings).
"A PENSIVE CLARITY - E.J. HUGHES" by Anthony Robertson 1982, (see
E.J. Hughes).
"ART FOR STUDENTS' SAKE" by Robin Laurence 2007, (see
UBC Alma Mater Society).
LISTS OF ARTISTS, MEMBERS AND EXHIBITORS:
Vancouver School of Decorative &
Applied Arts - List of Students 1925 - 1930
PROJECT MANUAL:
Table of Contents
About the Project
Using the CD-ROM
About the Artist Index
About the Artist Biographies
About the Exhibition Index
About the Free Incremental Upgrade
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