BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Ruth Quayle Dickson
(m Bertram Alexander Grant)

August 1 1914 - January 10 2007

Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (Diploma 1933)


Ruth Quayle Dickson was born in Nelson, her father was from the Isle of Man, and on her marriage certificate under the heading for "racial origin" she put "Manx."

She was an early graduate from the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, receiving her diploma in 1933.

She later had work in B.C. Artists exhibitions, one entry form stating that she had "lived in North Vancouver since 1913".

She married Bertram Grant in Vancouver on January 8 1944. Grant was listed as a sheet-metal worker, although he was in the RCNVR at the time. Dickson was listed as "artist - lamp manufacturing."

Dickson died in 2007.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1933 Sept. 22 - Oct. 15 VAG   B.C. Artists 2nd Annual Mrs. Reynolds
Girl Sewing
1938 Sept. 16 - Oct. 9 VAG   B.C. Artists 7th Annual Gerald
Portrait
1939 Sept. 15 - Oct. 8 VAG   B.C. Artists 8th Annual Dorothy Kennedy
Landscape

References

VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF ART - LIST OF GRADUATES & STUDENTS (refer to VSA)

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

Obituary, Vancouver Sun / Province from Jan. 13 to Jan. 14, 2007

Clippings

"Honourable Mentions were accorded as follows: Black & White: Miss Ruth Q. Dickson ("Portrait")"
     From "Medal Awards in B.C. Artists' Exhibition"
     Vancouver Art Gallery Bulletin Vol. 6 No. 2 October 1938
     Information provided courtesy Joanna Spurling, VAG Library & Archives

"Artists represented in the group comprise the following ... Ruth Dickson ... "
      From "Maritime Art Association"
      Vancouver Art Gallery Bulletin, November (?) 1939

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