BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Miss Theresa Victoria Wylde

June 30 1870 - March 21 1949

Vancouver Studio Club and School of Art
Island Arts and Crafts Society


Miss T.V. Wylde was born in Victoria. Around 1892 she went to England to study art at the Kensington School of Art in London. She exhibited in Vancouver, starting at least as early as 1909 with the November exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts. She also showed work that year in the Exhibition of Pictures held by the Vancouver Studio Club and School of Art.

Information on file at the Vancouver Art Gallery indicates that she also exhibited work with the Island Arts and Crafts Society between 1910 and 1921, with the Royal Academy in 1910, and that she was listed in the 1921 exhibition catalogue of the Island Arts and Crafts Society as an Instructor in art.

Wylde was a friend of Emily Carr, and created a life mask of Carr that was shown in Emily Carr: A Centennial Exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1971. The work is illustrated in Emily Carr, 2006, on page 271, text page 272 (see reference below).

A baptism record is available for T.V. Wylde on B.C. Vital Statistics web site.

Wylde died in Kilmersdon, Somerset, England in 1949.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1909 June 19 - July 17 Studio Club   Exhibition of Pictures Portrait Sketch, Gladys
"She Dwells With Beauty, Beauty That Must Fade"
Mrs. Spence-Clepham
1909 Oct. 27 - Nov. 6 Studio Club    Autumn Exhibition "admirable exhibits"
1909 November BCSFA    Second Exhibition The Red Cap
Study of a Head
Edgar Fawcett, Esq.
With a Forehead Fair and Saintly
The End of an Autumn Day
1910 September IACS   1st Annual Exhibition The Spithead Campbell River
She Dwells With Beauty, Beauty that Must Fade
Love Laughs at Locksmiths
Canterbury Bells
The Beginning of the Forest
M.A. Wylde, Esq.
Feeding Time
Edgar Fawcett, Esq.
This is the World and I am King, For me the bees come out to sing
Gladys
O Beautiful Flower! Would I Were Like Thee
His Honor the Lt.-Governor of British Columbia
Charles Thomas, Son of Major Dupont
Victoria
Study of Drapery
1911 Oct. 5 - 7 IACS Alexandra Club   2nd Annual October
With a Forehead Fair and Saintly
The Lily
A Garden Scene
Gladys - A Sketch
The Bay
Rowdy
Francesca Da Ramini Reading the Story of Guiniveve to Her Maids
Portrait, Kathleen Agnes
Spring
Cherries, Fruit and Blossom
Portrait, Victoria
Brother Scouts

References

ISLAND ARTS & CRAFTS CLUB 5th ANNUAL EXHIBITION (11 works) (refer to IACS14)

THE FINE ARTS IN VANCOUVER, 1886 - 1930 (refer to THOM69)

ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY - List of Exhibitors

EMILY CARR, New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon
      Joint publication by National Gallery of Canada & Vancouver Art Gallery
      2006; ISBN-13 978-1-55365-173-4; ISBN-10 1-55365-173-1; 336 pages, hardcover
      Essays by Jay Stewart & Peter Macnair; Johanne Lamoureux; Shirley Bear & Susan Crean;
            Charles C. Hill; Marcia Crosby; Andrew Hunter; Ian M. Thom; Gerta Moray; Steven C. McNeill
      Profusely illustrated in colour and black & white; incl. numerous historic photographs, ephemera, and maps
      Includes extensive notes; list of works; definitive bibliography (20 pages) including Sim Art & Artists in Exhibition.

"A WOMAN'S PLACE", edited by K.A. Finlay
      Art and the Role of Women in the Cultural Formation of Victoria, B.C. 1850s-1920s
      2006; ISBN 1-55058-288-7; 130 pages, softcover, illust. in colour and black and white
      Published by Maltwood Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria
      Includes information on numerous early B.C. women artists, including Wylde

https://collections.reading.ac.uk/art-collections/collections/wylde-theresa-victoria/

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wylde-189

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

Clippings

"I was delighted with a decorative figure subject in which Miss T.V. Wylde illustrates the lines from Keats:
       "She dwells with beauty -
       Beauty that must fade."

The color has quite a Rossetti or Burne-Jones quality."
      "Vancouver Studio Club Spring Exhibition"
      B.C. Saturday Sunset, July 3 1909


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