BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Arthur Redfern Cornwell

May 7 1886 -

Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force
B.C. Society of Fine Arts (Member 1921-1923)
B.C. Society of Fine Arts/B.C. Society of Artists: Exhibitor's Timeline
British Columbia Artist (B.C.A., 1921)


Arthur Redfern Cornwell served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War One. He signed his attestation papers in Toronto on October 2 1915. He was listed as an architect, born in Chester, England. He was noted as single, but his pay while in the army was assigned to Miss M. Bruce, who was living at the same address as Cornwell in Toronto, 100 Howard Park Avenue.

He enlisted in a Cycle Corps, and went overseas. He arrived in England January 31 1916, and departed for France August 12 1916. He received a gunshot wound in the knee on April 19 1917, and was taken to hospital in Etaples. He returned to Canada on the S.S. Scandinavian, and was demobilized.

He exhibited in the Annual Exhibitions of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts from 1920 to 1923.

The 1920 Henderson City Directory lists "Cornwell, Arthur R. draftsman Sharp & Thompson res. 4036 33rd W."

B.C. Vital Statistics on-line gives no information as of January 2024. Not in McMann, Artists in Canada, Building the West, or Dictionary of British Artists.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1920 September 18 - 25 BCSFA   Annual Exhibition Bramshott Manor
The Deer Hut, Liphook, England
Scottish Close
Sheep Pasture
Versailles Garden, Winter
1921 Sept. 19 - 24 BCSFA   13th Annual Exhibition April Clouds
St. Lawrence Park, Toronto
Autumn
Torquay, Devon, England
1922 Sept. 16 - 23 BCSFA   14th Annual Exhibition Venetian Canal
Longmore, near Bramshott
Ruins of Wingfield, Derbyshire
Covenant Close, Edinburgh
St. Thomas' Church, New York
1923 May 12 - 19 BCSFA   15th Annual Exhibition Crosby Hall, London, England
Madison Square Tower, New York
Pen Drawing

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