Adelaide Langford
(Mrs. Horace Ayleffe Langford)
(nee Adelaide Elizabeth Winyard Hurd)
c1856 - 1939
Slade School, London England
Art Institute of Chicago (graduate)
B.C. Society of Fine Arts
Art Club (Member 1927)
Shaughnessy Heights Golf Club (Member 1927)
Adelaide Hurd married Thomas Langford in Toronto in 1874. The bride was 18 years old.
A page on Rootsweb provides marriage information from Toronto, Ontario in 1874
including the artist's full maiden name and age at that time:
011836-74 Horace Ayliffe LANGFORD, 24, Isle of Wight, Toronto s/o Ayliffe &
Jane Elizabeth LANGFORD married Adelaide Elizabeth Winyard HURD, 18, Toronto,
same d/o Thos. Gladwin & Louisa HURD. Witn E.F. LANGFORD, F.W. JARVIS, Eleanor
SKYNNE, & Ellen SKYNNE all of Toronto, October 14, 1874.
She was an early exhibitor in Vancouver, exhibiting with the
B.C. Society of Fine Arts in 1910 and 1916.
An article "The Fine Arts", published June 9, 1923 in the Western
Women's Weekly, noted that Langford was a critic of the
Studio Club, and had painted the murals on the ceiling
of the C.P.R. Station in Vancouver (presumably the third one, currently serving
as the Seabus and Westcoast Express Rail terminus). The C.P.R. Station opened
on August 1, 1914.
B.C. Vital Statistics on-line lists no information on Adelaide Langford under the name
as given above. Horace Ayliffe Langford died in Vancouver at the age of 70 on May 27, 1920.
1927 memberships
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
References
Greater Vancouver Social and Club Register (1927)
THE FINE ARTS IN VANCOUVER, 1886 - 1930
(refer to THOM69)
ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES
(refer to AIC82)
BRITISH COLUMBIA WOMEN ARTISTS 1885-1985 (refer to
AGGV85)
PUBLIC ART IN VANCOUVER - ANGELS AMONG LIONS (refer to
PAV09)
https://illustratedvancouver.ca/post/47969343977/rocky-mountains-by-adelaide-langford
Clippings
"Adelaide Langford is represented by three strongly painted,
and, if the term is admissable, virile works. They are "The Dryad's Haunt," No. 7(?), "The
Canyon, Yale," No. 80, and "Sunset," No. 77. The three are in a class by themselves and
they would not be out of place in any British or Continental gallery. "The Canyon, Yale" is
full of poetic feeling very adequately rendered while the massiveness and depth of color
of the "Sunset" display true artistic insight. It is easy to see that the painter has sat
at the feet of the old masters and gleaned something of their witchery."
From "With The B.C. Artists" by "A Visitor"
Vancouver Province, September 27 1916
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