BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

(Margaret) Joan Wright (Miss)
(m Bruce D. Boyd, Joan Wright Boyd)

1925 - ?

Vancouver School of Art (graduated 1948)
Coast Group
B.C. Society of Fine Arts (Member 1952-1967)

Joan Wright was born in New Westminster, and graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1948.

She exhibited work in the B.C. Artists exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 1946 to 1956.

She had work in the 1946, 1948 and 1949 Stanley Park in Pictures exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Boyd exhibited with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1952, 1954 to 1959, 1964, and 1967. She was Honorary Secretary of the group in 1955, and Honorary Treasurer in 1956.

She submitted four drawings to the B.C. Graphic exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, two of them were selected for the exhibition. She was living in Vancouver at the time.

Her work was reviewed in Canadian Art magazine in 1950 by Doris Shadbolt, the wife of artist Jack Shadbolt.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1946 Aug. 13 - 25 VAG   Stanley Park in Pictures Totems and Trees
Totem
Trees
1946 Sept. 21 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 15th Annual Penticton Hills
View from West Bay
1946 Oct. ? - ? FCA    40 Selections from 15th BCA Penticton Hills
1947 Sept. 20 - Oct. 12 VAG   B.C. Artists 16th Annual Interior
1948 July 27 - Aug. 15 VAG   Stanley Park in Pictures View From Stanley Park Entrance
1948 Nov. 9 - 28 Coast Group   B.C. Painters Beach
School Yard
Figure
Study
1949 May 3 - 22 BCSFA   39th Annual Hornby Island
Composition
1949 July 12 - July 31 VAG   Stanley Park in Pictures West of Second Beach
1949 Oct. 8 - 30 VAG   B.C. Artists 18th Annual Thoughts
1949 Nov. 22 - Dec. 11 VAG   First B.C. Graphic Composition #1 (rejected)
Arrangement
Figure
Composition #2 (rejected)
1950 April 25 - May 14 BCSA   40th Annual Beach
1950 Nov. 28 - Dec. 17 VAG   B.C. Artists 19th Annual Sea View
1951 April 24 - May 13 VAG   BCSA 41st Annual Landscape
1951 Nov. 27 - Dec. 16 VAG   B.C. Artists 20th Annual Fraser Flats
Lookout Point
1952 April 1 - 20 VAG   BCSA 42nd Annual Oak Bay
1952 Oct. 21 - Nov. 16 VAG   B.C. Artists 21st Annual Seascape
1953 Sept. 15 - Oct. 4 VAG   B.C. Artists 22nd Annual Beach
1954 May 25 - June 13 VAG   BCSA 44th Annual Spring Forms
Spring View
1954 Sept. 21 - Oct. 10 VAG   B.C. Artists 23rd Annual Landscape
1955 April 26 - May 15 VAG   BCSA 45th Annual Winter View
1955 Sept. 20 - Oct. 9 VAG   B.C. Artists 24th Annual Autumn Day
1956 Feb. 28 - Mar. 18 VAG   BCSA 46th Annual Winter Scene
1957 March 5 - 24 VAG   BCSA 47th Annual Beach at Sunset
Mountains Near Lake Louise
1958 Feb. 4 - 22 UBC   BCSA 48th Annual Landscape
1959 June 2 - 21 VAG   BCSA 49th Annual West Vancouver View
1964 May 8 - June 3 VAG   BCSA 54th Annual Blue Storm
1964 Summer Park Royal   BCSA Summer Exhibition Landscape
Summer
1967 May 3 - 28 VAG   BCSA 57th Annual Capricorn

References

SOUVENIR CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITIONS OPENING THE NEW VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (refer to VAG51)

100 YEARS OF B.C. ART (refer to VAG58)

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

A DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN ARTISTS (refer to M)
      Brief biography based on "document from artist".

GENERATIONS - FIVE DECADES OF ART IN WEST VANCOUVER 1912 - 1962 (refer to WVMA99)

Clippings

"Other painters in this medium include ... Joan Wright Boyd with "Spring" ... "
      From "Watercolors Highlight of Art Showing" by Mildred Valley Thornton
      Vancouver Sun, May 3 1950

"A Fresh Brevity of Form" by Doris Shadbolt
      Canadian Art magazine, 1950, Vol. 7 No. 4

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