BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Gwladys (also Gladys) Clovelly L. Woodward

June 11 1885 - August 7 1978

Island Arts and Crafts Society

Gwladys Woodward was born in Uckington, Gloucester, England in 1885. She lived in Victoria beginning in 1928. She was a landscape painter in watercolour, and exhibited her work with the Island Arts and Crafts Society between 1910 and 1941.

In 1932 Woodward was a signatory to an agreement to boycott the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa for their exhibition and purchase policies related to Canadian artists. She was noted as being a Victoria artist.

She had work in a number of the the B.C. Artists exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

She was single when she died at home in Victoria in 1978.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1910 September IACS   1st Annual View Near Illecillewaet
Gordon Head, near Victoria
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
From Beacon Hill
1911 Oct. 5 - 7 IACS Alexandra Club   2nd Annual Near Alberni
A November Evening
Japanese Garden, Gorge Park
A Rose
Looking Down Moss Street
A Breezy Day at Ross Bay
Sealing Schooners
Camp at Shawnigan
1932 Oct. 5 - 30 VAG   B.C. Artists 1st Annual The Straits of Juan de Fuca
1933 Mar. 3 - 15 VAG   IACS Vancouver Island Exhibition Pines, Vancouver Island
Old Indian Church
The Angel's Gateway
1933 Dec. 1 - 17 VAG   B.C. Artists Christmas Exhibition The Valley of the Limm
Olympics from Victoria
Winding Road Vancouver Island
1934 Sept. 21 - Oct. 14 VAG   B.C. Artists 3rd Annual In the Mountain
1934 Dec. 4 - 16 VAG   B.C. Artists Christmas Exhibition Where Snow and Flowers Meet
In the Mountains
1935 Sept. 20 - Oct. 15 VAG   B.C. Artists 4th Annual Landscape
1936 Sept. 18 - Oct. 11 VAG   B.C. Artists 5th Annual Reflections
Canadian Landscape
1939 Mar. 14 - 26 VAG   IACS Vancouver Island Exhibition Our Camp
In the Mountains
1941 Sept. 26 - Oct. 19 VAG   B.C. Artists 10th Annual The Hillside
1943 Sept. 25 - Oct. 20 VAG   B.C. Artists 12th Annual Victoria Landscape
Landscape

References

ISLAND ARTS & CRAFTS CLUB 5th ANNUAL EXHIBITION (refer to IACS14)

WHO'S WHO IN NORTHWEST ART (refer to WWNA41)
      Short entry for Woodward.

ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY - List of Exhibitors

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

BRITISH COLUMBIA WOMEN ARTISTS 1885-1985 (refer to AGGV85)

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

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

Clippings

" ... the 118 artists who have signed the agreement to date ... include ... Gladys Woodward ... "
      From "Canadian Artists Unite to Boycott National Gallery" by The Canadian Press
      Montreal Gazette, December 8 1932


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