BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Elmore George Ozard

March 12 1914 - March 8 1988

B.C. Society of Artists (Associate 1953, Member 1954-1967)
Federation of Canadian Artists (Past President)

Elmore George Ozard was born in Victoria, B.C. in 1914. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art from 1932 to 1937, receiving a Merit Certificate for the 1936-37 school year, but did not receive a diploma. He received a B.A. from the University of Washington in 1947, and later studied in England. He was living in Vancouver in 1948 and in 1961.

He exhibited artwork in the B.C. Artists exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1948, 1951, and 1956.

He exhibited with the B.C. Society of Artists in 1952, 1953, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, and 1966.

Ozard died in West Vancouver in 1988 at the age of 73, according to B.C. Archives on-line. His occupation was noted as "Professor - Education."


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1948 Sept. 18 - Oct. 10 VAG   B.C. Artists 17th Annual Yale, B.C.
Abstract
1951 Nov. 27 - Dec. 16 VAG   B.C. Artists 20th Annual The Fraser Above Lytton
1952 April 1 - 20 VAG   BCSA 42nd Annual Storm Near Lytton
1953 May 5 - 31 VAG   BCSA 43rd Annual The Fraser, Near Hope
1957 March 5 - 24 VAG   BCSA 47th Annual Carnival at Arnhem
Beach Forms
Three Penny Bridge, Paddington
1958 Feb. 4 - 22 UBC   BCSA 48th Annual Cove Haven
1960 May 22 - June 12 VAG   BCSA 50th Annual Sea Pool Snag
Swamp Flowers
Beyond Keremeos
1961 May 10 - 28 VAG   BCSA 51st Annual Gulls and Reflection
1966 May 10 - June 5 VAG   BCSA 56th Annual Argonauts
1956 Oct. 23 - Nov. 11 VAG   B.C. Artists 25th Annual Zaragoza, Spain

References

See Vancouver School of Decorative & Applied Arts - List of Students for art school references.

BURNABY NATIONAL PRINT SHOW (refer to BAG61)

SPRING EXHIBITION - FCA - BC REGION (refer to FCA64)

ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)

A DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN ARTISTS (refer to M)
      Short biography, information provided by Ozard.

A CENTURY OF SCULPTURE (refer to SSBC98)

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
      1 reference cited for Ozard: M above.

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

Obituary published Vancouver Sun March 11 1988
      https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57361479/the-vancouver-sun/

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