Walter E. Rice
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Walter E. Rice had work in the 1911 and 1912 annual
exhibitions of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts. He was apparently an
American architect from Seattle, who joined the firm that then became known as
Russell, Babcock & Rice. They opened a Vancouver office in 1912, but the firm didn't
do well, with Babcock and Rice maintaining a Vancouver office only until 1916.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
References
THE FINE ARTS IN VANCOUVER, 1886 - 1930
(refer to THOM69)
BUILDING THE WEST - Early Architects of British Columbia
2003; Edited by Donald Luxton, numerous contributing authors and researchers
Talonbooks, ISBN 0-88922-474-9
560 pages, extensively illustrated in black and white, some colour
Biographies of over 400 architects and firms; extensive bibliography
Includes references to Rice, and sketch of ruin by Rice illustrated page 412.
Clippings
"Mr. W.J. Rice's (sic) landscapes, like Mr.
Tytler's tangled woods, show a remarkable quality of courage, and the coloring
of his skies, horizons and middle distances is magnificently imaginative.
Mr. Rice appears to see whole realms of "cloud-capped towers and airy
palaces" in his middle distances, where another person sees merely a fold
in the hills. If his pictures have a fault, however, it is that his foregrounds
are left to the imagination, and such detail as he supplies is etched, rather than
brought into harmony with the general style of his imaginative technique."
From "Some Pictures by B.C. Artists" by
A.N. St. John Mildmay
News Advertiser, November 21 1911
"Among water color artists, the work of Mr. W.E. Rice was particularly pleasing."
From "Fine Arts Society Makes Fine Exhibit"
Vancouver Daily World, November 23 1911
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