BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

William Edwin Atkinson

March 23 1862 - July 31 1926

Ontario Society of Artists (1892 - 1907)
Founding Member, Canadian Art Club (1907 - 1915)
Associate, Royal Canadian Academy, 1918

William Edwin Atkinson was born in Toronto, Ontario, and was an eastern Canadian painter. Some of his paintings were loaned to the Studio Club exhibition in 1909 from the collection of a Mrs. Watkins.

He exhibited with the Royal Academy from 1893 until 1923. The titles of his paintings indicated that he travelled and painted scenes of Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, England, Wales, Holland, and France.

Exhibitions

DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1909 Oct. - Nov. Studio Club
Autumn Exhibition
A Canal In Bruges
("and other pictures")

References

EARLY PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS IN CANADA (refer to H70)

A DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN ARTISTS (refer to M)

ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS -
EXHIBITIONS & MEMBERS 1880 - 1979
(refer to RCA81)

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
      16 references cited for Atkinson.

Clippings

" "A Canal in Bruges" by W.E. Atkinson, A.R.C.A., and other pictures by the same artist are loaned by Mrs. Watkins."
      From "The Studio Club Autumn Exhibition", by Felix Penne,
      B.C. Saturday Sunset, October 30,1909


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