BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Mrs. Louise Ada Loveland
(Mrs. Walter F. Loveland)

c1869 - July 24 1941

Island Arts and Crafts Society

Mrs. Louise Ada Loveland exhibited with the Island Arts and Crafts Society for a number of years, from at least 1913 to 1941.

She lived in Victoria, and had been in British Columbia for "thirty years", according to an exhibition entry form for a B.C. Artists annual.

In 1932 Loveland was a signatory to an agreement to boycott the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa for their exhibition and purchase policies related to Canadian artists. She was noted as being a Victoria artist.

Loveland exhibited her work in the B.C. Artists annuals at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 1933 to 1940.

She died in Victoria, B.C. on July 24 1941, aged 72, according to B.C. Vital Statistics on-line.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1933 Mar. 3 - 15 VAG   IACS Vancouver Island Exhibition Arbutus Tree
Yesterday and Today in Victoria
Hollyhocks
1933 Sept. 22 - Oct. 15 VAG   B.C. Artists 2nd Annual Regal Lilies
Peonies
1934 Sept. 21 - Oct. 14 VAG   B.C. Artists 3rd Annual Navy Chapel, Esquimalt
Crater Lake, Oregon
1935 Sept. 20 - Oct. 15 VAG   B.C. Artists 4th Annual A Sketch of an Artist
1936 Sept. 18 - Oct. 11 VAG   B.C. Artists 5th Annual Mist on the Channel
1937 Sept. 17 - Oct. 10 VAG   B.C. Artists 6th Annual Hastings Castle
1939 Mar. 14 - 26 VAG   IACS Vancouver Island Exhibition Papago Park, Arizona
Mission, Carmel
1939 Sept. 15 - Oct. 8 VAG   B.C. Artists 8th Annual In Arizona
1940 Sept. 20 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 9th Annual Wild Hay
Summer Time

References

ISLAND ARTS & CRAFTS CLUB 5th ANNUAL EXHIBITION (refer to IACS14)

ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY - List of Exhibitors

MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - SPRING EXHIBITIONS 1880 - 1970 (refer to MM88)

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

Clippings

" ... the 118 artists who have signed the agreement to date ... include ... Louise A. Loveland ... "
      From "Canadian Artists Unite to Boycott National Gallery" by The Canadian Press
      Montreal Gazette, December 8 1932


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