BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Oscar Ludwig Erickson

c1890 - 1965

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Oscar Erickson c1942, courtesy Vancouver City Archives

Oscar Erickson was raised in Toronto, Ontario by his mother, who was from Sweden. He enlisted in the Canadian Army in World War One, and lost both of his legs in France at the Battle of Amiens. He engaged to marry Myrtle Chatterson in 1917, and the couple were married in Winnipeg, Manitoba on June 25, 1919, after his return to Canada. He received the Military Cross from King George V, and was promoted to Major.

He was the father of Arthur Erickson, the famous Canadian Architect, in 1924.

Erickson exhibited artwork in the 1944 B.C. Artists exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The artist was living in Vancouver.

He received an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1946.

Erickson died in 1965, according to information in Arthur Erickson - An Architect's Life (see References).


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1944 Sept. 23 - Oct. 22 VAG   B.C. Artists 13th Annual Zinnias

References

AN ARCHITECT'S LIFE by David Stouck
     2013, Douglas and McIntyre Ltd., Madeira Park
     ISBN 978-1-77100-011-6 (460 pages, hardcover)
A comprehensive biography of Arthur Erickson, illust. b&w photos only. Includes sources, bibliography, index. Includes lengthy section on the life of Oscar Erickson and his wife Myrtle.

https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/major-oscar-erickson-double-amputee-prominent-vanc-ouver-businessman

https://vancouversunandprovince.remembering.ca/obituary/oscar-erickson-1071787879

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Erickson-718

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