Salt Spring Island Art Group
? - 1948 - ?
The Salt Spring Island Art Group was a group of artists
living on Salt Spring Island, in B.C.'s Gulf Islands. Artists
who exhibited with the group included:
Bittancourt, Norah Elizabeth
Bryant, M.E.E.
Charlesworth, E.R.M.
Corbet, Edgar Ferrar
Croft, J.I.
Larmour, Elsie Stewart
Robinson, M.
Ross, P.
Sharp, George Lister Thornton
Sherman, K.
Walker, H.
Wychoff, J.
Artist Plato von Ustinov was noted
as being an Instructor for the group.
According to a letter from Nora Bittancourt dated Oct. 25 1948, the exhbition listed
below was the fourth exhibition held by the group, "two having been held locally
in the summers of 1947 and 1948, and one in Victoria under the auspices of
the Federation of Canadian Artists at the Little Centre."
Exhibitions
Clippings
"There is little to add by way of publicity to what was contained in "Island Events"
which I left with you. ... "
From "Letter re Saltspring Island Art Group exhibition"
Personal correspondence, October 25 1948
Editor's note: Information provided courtesy Vancouver Art
Gallery Library.
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