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2018 - BC ARTISTS - THE YEAR IN REVIEW

Work proceeded in fits and starts in 2018 - a binge of information entering, then two or three months off, then some research, and another binge of additions, finishing off the year with a week of work over the holidays. In total, a significant amount of information was added this year:

286 new web pages were created, an increase of over 10% to 2,894.
103 new images were added, an increase of 20% to 610.
750 artists were added to the index, an increase of 4% to 18,874.
130 artist biographies were created, an increase of 9% to 1,581.
3,260 cross-references were added, an increase of 10%.
1,500 artworks were listed from 34 transcribed catalogues, an increase of 15%.

The continuing emphasis for input to BC ARTISTS is the collecting and recording of information for the period prior to 1950. Information from 1950 to the present day is added as time permits and when interesting documents are acquired.



2018 UPDATES: New to Release 1.8.1 (since 1.8.0)

Issued January 1 2019

Summary: 14 new artist biographies, 29 new artists, 2 BC artist references, 6 new images, 1 reference, 1 clipping, 7 new exhibition catalogues (439 artworks listed), 8 BC Vital Statistic updates, 3 new groups listed.

NEW ARTISTS: 29
TOTAL ARTISTS: 18,875

NEW ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: 14
TOTAL ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: 1,581

NEW JPG FILES: 6
TOTAL JPG FILES: 610

NEW HTM FILES: 30
UPDATED HTM FILES: 166
TOTAL HTM FILES: 2,897

NEW BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 2
TOTAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 332

NEW INDIVIDUAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 31 (488 in progress)
TOTAL INDIVIDUAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 35,801


  NEW BIOGRAPHIES
  Collcutt, Sydney R.
  Cross, Franklin
  Cross, Major Frederick G.
  Dahlager, Jules
  Dickson, Helen
  Elgood, Elise
  Inverarity, R. Bruce
  Kennedy, James
  MacArthur, Dugald C.
  Mallett, Marjorie Dimery
  Pitchford, C.D.
  Shizuo, Katsu
  Voss, Dedekam
  West, Charles

  NEW REFERENCES
CW85 CAMERA WORKERS (1985) {CROSS REFERENCES ARE NOT COMPLETE}
SS03 BEAUTY IS ... A COLLECTION OF OKANAGAN ART (2003)

  NEW CLIPPINGS
1936 "PASOVAS CLUB Annual Display on View at Art Gallery"

  NEW EXHIBITIONS - GROUP
  1932 PASOVAS group exhibition (98 artworks)
  1934 BC Artists Christmas exhibition (91 artworks)

  NEW EXHIBITIONS - SOLO
  1932 R. Bruce Inverarity - Exhibition (119 artworks)
  1933 H.G. Cox - Exhibition (50 photographs)
  1933 James Kennedy - Exhibition (19 shadow inlays)
  1939 R.W. Hunter - Exhibition (22 artworks)
  1939 Emily Carr - Exhibition (40 artworks)

  NEW IMAGES
 
   
 
 



2018 UPDATES: New to Release 1.8.0

Issued 2018.09.22.

Summary: 73 new artists, 1 BC artist reference, 50 BC Vital Statistic updates, 70 new images, 11 new groups & artist studios listed for a total of 244. 2 new clippings, 24 new exhibition catalogues with a total of 800 artworks shown. A number of listings from provincial and city directories were added to DIR.

A review of the Vancouver Art Gallery list of exhibitions from 1932 to 1950 resulted in over 50 artist biographies being updated with additional solo exhibition listings. An afternoon in the VAG Library doing research provided 40 "new" exhibition catalogues and/or exhibition lists for solo and group shows. A number of these have been completed, per list below. A number of additions were made to the list of reviewer "nom de plumes" from reviews related to the exhibitions.

New files were created as Occasional Papers for:
     Engravers and Printers of Vancouver
     Photographers of Vancouver.
These accompany the continually expanding occasional paper:
     Art & framing stores of Vancouver.
Numerous visual artists worked for these companies, so it seemed useful to provide places to put the information together.

Updates to the 1949 First B.C. Graphic exhibition catalogue, first transcribed in 2004, resulted in 11 new artist biographies, and most of the 60 other artists in the exhibition had artwork updates from listing rejected work.

NEW ARTISTS: 73
TOTAL ARTISTS: 18,846

NEW ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: 78
TOTAL ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: 1,567

NEW JPG FILES: 70
TOTAL JPG FILES: 604

NEW HTM FILES: 180
UPDATED HTM FILES: 234
TOTAL HTM FILES: 2,867

NEW BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 1
TOTAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 330

NEW INDIVIDUAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 117
TOTAL INDIVIDUAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 35,770

  NEW BIOGRAPHIES
  Aikens, Hugh E.
  Archer, Tony
  Aris, Irene
  Avery, H.G.
  Baxter, George A.H.
  Bentley, Percy
  Bittancourt, Norah Elizabeth
  Borofski, D.R.
  Bricker, Joseph S.
  Bryant, M.E.E.
  Bullen, Beatrix
  Lloyd G. Burgess
  Clancy, Louise
  Clarke, Scot
  Cloutier, S.P.
  Corbet, Edgar Ferrar
  Cox-Walker, Doris
  Cripps, Ruth
  Croft, J.I.
  Dakin, Stanley C.
  De Rinzy, Sam
  Docherty, Iris
  Fitz-James, Gladys
  Fortune, R.
  Frith, Evelyn
  Frith, Hugh W.
  Gilmour, Hazel V.H.
  Gottschau, Carl B.
  Green, Mary C.
  Heelas, Doreen
  Humphries, Elizabeth
  Hunter, C.W.
  Hunter, May
  Huntley, T.J.
  Jamieson, J.A.
  Jones, Dulcibel
  Kerr, Neil F.
  Larmour, Elsie Stewart
  Laurie, Eileen
  Long, Jack V.
  Mauriaucourt, Germaine
  McAllister, Ken
  McLaren, Arthur Campbell
  McLennan, Maisie
  McQuillan, E.Y.
  Morrison, Patricia
  Munro, Donelda
  Murison, Gerald P.B.
  Neff, Irene
  Neufeld, Margaret
  Newcombe, Jean M.
  Newman, J.
  Paton, John N.
  Percival, T. Mary
  Perry, Joan
  Richardson, Kathleen
  Roberts, Ivy M.
  Roberts, Jessie H.
  Robinson, M.
  Robinson, Playfair
  Ross, P.
  Schultz, W.K.
  Sheridon, Gracie
  Sherman, K.
  Skinner, Herbert
  Smith, Ernest B.
  Smith, Sophie M.
  Sorenson, Norma
  Starkey, P.J.
  Stephenson, Mary I.
  Taylor, Austin
  Taylor, Cyril H.
  Treen, Ina
  Walker, H.
  Webster, A.C.
  Webster, Rozella Sims
  Wilkins, M.
  Wright, E.L.
  Wychoff, J.

  NEW EXHIBITIONS - SOLO
  1946 Maud Mary Waugh solo exhibition (32 artworks)
  1946 Gordon Kit Thorne solo exhibition (15 artworks)
  1946 Gordon R. Couling solo exhibition (18 artworks)
  1946 Clara Martin solo exhibition (25 artworks)
  1946 McGregor Hone solo exhibition (35 artworks)
  1946 Doris Borgens solo exhibition (15 artworks)
  1946 P.J. Starkey solo exhibition (18 artworks)
  1946 Scot Clarke solo exhibition (19 artworks)
  1947 Emma Driega solo exhibition (16 artworks)
  1947 Cyril H. Taylor solo exhibition (11 artworks)
  1947 Charles H. Scott Retrospective exhibition (102 artworks)
  1948 Peggy Larson solo exhibition (29 artworks)
  1948 Dorothy Chapman Gibbs solo exhibition (25 artworks)
  1948 Bessie Fry Symons solo exhibition (29 artworks)
  1948 W.L. Stevenson solo exhibition (22 artworks)
  1948 C.A. Forssander solo exhibition (17 artworks)
  1948 J.L. Shadbolt solo exhibition (43 artworks)
  1948 Kenneth Hoff solo exhibition (15 artworks)
  1948 Sybil Andrews solo exhibition (20 artworks)
  1949 Erich Loewe solo exhibition (32 artworks)
 
  NEW EXHIBITIONS - GROUP
  1946 Stanley Park in Pictures (120 artworks)
  1946 7th Annual Vancouver International Photo Salon (38 artworks)
  1948 Salt Spring Island Art Group (68 artworks)
  1948 West Vancouver Sketch Club Group (36 artworks)

  NEW REFERENCES
AIM08 ARTISTS IN OUR MIDST (2008)

  NEW CLIPPINGS
1945 "B.C. Industry Lives in Gallery Display"
1947 "Goutiere Art Gallery Exhibit Vivid, Poetic"

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2018 UPDATES: New to Release 1.7.9

Issued July 26 2018

Summary: 32 new artists, 0 new biography files, 2 BC artist references, 17 BC Vital Statistic updates, 8 artist monographs added (837 total for 417 artists). 9 new images. Numerous artist cross-references were added from review of back issues of Amphora.

McMann's ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS (see below) was cross-referenced to 334 BC artists, of whom only 22 are new to BC Artists, mostly architects. 128 artist biographies were updated.

NEW ARTISTS: 32
TOTAL ARTISTS: 18,773

NEW ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: 0
TOTAL ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: 1,489

NEW JPG FILES: 9
TOTAL JPG FILES: 534

NEW HTM FILES: 4
UPDATED HTM FILES: 190
TOTAL HTM FILES: 2,687

NEW BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 2
TOTAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 329

NEW INDIVIDUAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 414
TOTAL INDIVIDUAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 35,653

  NEW REFERENCES
 
RCA81 ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS -
  EXHIBITIONS & MEMBERS 1880 - 1979
(1981)
FECK18 THE FECKLESS COLLECTION (2018)

  NEW IMAGES
 
                 


2018 UPDATES: New to Release 1.7.8

Issued June 7 2018

Summary: 64 new artists, 1 new biography file, 2 BC artist references, 30 BC Vital Statistic updates, 8 artist monographs added (829 total). Macdonald's Dictionary of Canadian Artists Volume 8.1 was recently acquired. 155 BC artists were referenced from this volume (668 pages), 46 of them new to BC Artists.

NEW ARTISTS: 64
TOTAL ARTISTS: 18,741

NEW ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: 1
TOTAL ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: 1,489

NEW JPG FILES: 0
TOTAL JPG FILES: 525

NEW HTM FILES: 3
UPDATED HTM FILES: 92
TOTAL HTM FILES: 2,679

NEW BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 2
TOTAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 327

NEW INDIVIDUAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 320
TOTAL INDIVIDUAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 35,239

  NEW REFERENCES
WVM17 WE ALL DREW, ALWAYS (2017)

  NEW BIOGRAPHIES
  Shaw, Jane Brunn


2018 UPDATES: New to Release 1.7.7

Minor updates, issued May 16 2018


2018 UPDATES: New to Release 1.7.6

Issued May 5 2018

Summary: Extensive updates to Stanley D.F. Tytler biography. 37 new artist biographies, one new clipping, 16 new images, misc. updates, 3 new exhibitions with 308 artworks listed in total, 3 new books referenced, 17 artist monographs added, 23 BC Vital Statistics updates, 2017 "what's new" page added. 554 new artists referenced.

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Acquisition of the 1982 Artists in Canada publication allowed for a review of its contents compared to BC artists, and a surprising number of "new" artists showed up, along with a number of name and date additions. All artists noted as "BC" (plus a few others) in AIC82 have now been referenced into BC Artists. There are 527 "new" artists from 2,273 applicable (BC artist) references, out of approximately 21,000 Canadian artists listed in the publication.

A summary of information referenced:
  2,273 BC artist references:
      527 new artists
      1,746 artists already listed in BCA
      381 artists already listed have biography files
  202 vital statistic updates (names and dates)

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NEW ARTISTS: 554
TOTAL ARTISTS: 18,677

NEW ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: 37
TOTAL ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: 1,488

NEW JPG FILES: 16
TOTAL JPG FILES: 525

NEW HTM FILES: 64
UPDATED HTM FILES: 527
TOTAL HTM FILES: 2,676

NEW BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 6
TOTAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 325

NEW INDIVIDUAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 2,382
TOTAL INDIVIDUAL BC ARTIST REFERENCES: 34,919


  NEW BIOGRAPHIES
  Allen, Betty
  Cers, Edna V.
  Clyne, Barbara
  Elderton, Gordon
  Engel, Rudolph (Rudy)
  Ffrench, Conrad T.
  Forsander, C.A.
  Goepel, Winifred I.
  Green, Cyril
  Hamersley, Gladys
  Harris, Ellen
  Harrison, Millicent S.
  Hatfield, Francis Maria
  Hummel, M.A.F.
  Knight, Alice
  Larson, Peggy
  Lautard, Paul J.
  Le May, Marcien
  MacBean, Marjorie E.
  MacQuarrie, Grant R.M.
  Nash, W.T.
  Nicholson, A.H.
  Peers, Arthur M.
  Penney, William D.
  Planta, Leslie
  Playle, Dorothy
  Radford, Ruth
  Rogers, D.
  Ross, Margaret
  Stockley, Penelope
  Stone, Amy Blanche
  Tauber, Harry
  Voischos, Helen
  Webb, Gerald K.
  Weston, Irene
  Whitehead, J.D.
  Worsoe, Sylvia

  NEW EXHIBITIONS
  1947 BC Artists 16th Annual Exhibition (272 artworks)
  1947 Gordon Smith Paintings & Sketches (19 artworks)
  1948 Auree Sinkins Paintings & Sketches (17 artworks)

  NEW REFERENCES
AGH84 VANCOUVER 6 (1984)
AIC82 ARTISTS IN CANADA (1982)
LIM75 THE LIMNERS (1975)
LIM78 THE LIMNERS (1978)
SSBC84 SCULPTURE '84 (1984)
VAL88 FEAR OF OTHERS (1988)

  NEW CLIPPINGS
  S.D. Tytler, B.C. Artist Succumbs (1948)

  NEW IMAGES
 
     
     
     
     
     
 



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