BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Rankin
(m James S. Rankin)

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Vancouver Arts and Crafts Association
B.C. Society of Fine Arts
Vancouver Sketch Club

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Rankin exhibited in Vancouver starting as early as 1900, with two oil paintings in the Vancouver Arts and Crafts Association First Annual exhibition.

She exhibited work with the Vancouver Sketch Club from at least 1917 to 1925.

She later showed work with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts in the 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1924 annual exhibitions. The 1920 exhibition was held at the Vancouver School Board offices on Hamilton Street.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1900 Sept. 25-27 VACA First Annual Exhibition Three Sisters, Canmore
A Sunburst
1917 May 5 Sketch Club    Exhibition (titles not known)
1917 Sept. 14 - 22 BCSFA   Eleventh Exhibition The Casco
1917 December 1 Sketch Club    Exhibition (titles not known)
1918 Feb. 2 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (titles not known)
1918 April Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (view of mountains across harbour)
(bit of foreshore in the glow of evening)
1919 Sept. 6 - ? Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition The Narrows
Sleeping Beauty Mountains
1920 Feb. 7 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (pencil sketches from the model)
1920 September 18 - 25 BCSFA   Annual Exhibition Brockton Point
1920 Dec. 4 - ? Sketch Club    Annual Exhibition (landscape)
(landscape)
(marine view)
(marine view)
(marine view)
1921 Sept. 19 - 24 BCSFA   13th Annual Exhibition View in the Narrows
A Breezy Day
1921 Nov. 5 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (three landscapes)
1922 April 1 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (the Lions)
1922 Sept. 16 - 23 BCSFA   14th Annual Exhibition The Lions
A Bit of the Narrows
1924 May 3 - 17 BCSFA   16th Annual Exhibition Deepening Shadows
1925 Nov. 28 - Dec. 5 Sketch Club    Semi-Annual Exhibition (titles not known)

References

Clippings

"Among the exhibitors were ... Mrs. Rankin ..."
      From "Social Notes"
      Vancouver Daily World, May 7 1917

"At their new quarters in the Victoria block, the Vancouver Sketch Club had an interesting exhibition on Saturday afternoon. Among the exhibitors were ... Mrs. Rankine ..."
      "Many Visitors At Sketch Club"
      Vancouver Daily World, December 3 1917

"Sketches were sent in by the following: ... Mrs. Rankin ... "
      From "Sketch Club Display"
      Vancouver Daily World, February 4 1918

"Mrs. Rankin's satisfactory rendering of a view of the mountains across the harbor was excelled by (a) more pleasing bit of foreshore in the glow of evening."
      From "Miss Neilson Terry is Guest of Sketch Club"
      Vancouver Daily World, April 1918

" ... "The Narrows," and "Sleeping Beauty Mountains," by Mrs. J.S. Rankin ... "
      From "Sketch Club Opens Winter Season's Work"
      Vancouver Daily Province, September 8 1919

" ... Mrs. J.S. Rankin (was represented) by pencil sketches from the model at the club's evening classes; ... "
      From "Sketch Club Has Resumed Exhibitions"
      Vancouver Daily World, February 9 1920

"Mrs. J.S. Rankin (was represented) by water color sketches of "Dead Man's Island," and "Boats at Anchor""
      From "Vancouver Sketch Club"
      Western Woman's Weekly, October 9 1920

"Mrs. Rankin's landscapes are always a pleasure to everybody and this time equally so. She also shows three marine views soft and lovely in color."
      From "Annual Exhibit by Sketch Club"
      Vancouver Province, December 6 1920

"The exhibitors were: ... Mrs. Rankin, three landscapes; ... "
      From "Many View Sketch Club Exhibit and Much Work Shown"
      Vancouver Sun, November 7 1921

"Mrs. Rankin hung a scene of The Lions, done in her usual distinctive style."
      From "Sketch Club Tea Enjoyable Event; Good Work Shown"
      Vancouver Daily World, April 3 1922

""Deepening Shadows" by Mrs. Rankin is done in washes of delicate colors. The sense of distance is satisfying. Wavering reflections of mauve, brown and green in the pale shimmering water give poetry to the picture."
      From "Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Art" by Alice M. Winlow
      British Columbia magazine, June 1924

"Others exhibiting were ... Mrs. Rankin, ... "
      From "Private View Precedes Sketch Club Exhibition"
      Vancouver Province, November 30 1925


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