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DES CLAYES, Berthe

Born
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1877
Died
Devon, England, 1968
Biography synopsis
Known for her portraits and Impressionist-style landscapes, the eldest of the Des Clayes sisters traveled between Montreal and England throughout her life. Her early studies took place at the Bushey School of Art in England and the Académie Julian in Paris where she studied under Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre. After living in London for six years (1906-12), she settled in Montreal in 1912, then spent a year traveling in England and France (1919-20). Des Clayes then settled in Chorleywood, England until 1931, then returned to Montreal where she lived until 1951. She was in Devon, England in 1967, and died the following year. A versatile artist, she worked in oils, watercolours and pastels and won the Jessie Dow Prize twice. Her fondness for the Canadian landscape pushed her to illustrate two books: "Here and There in Montreal and the Island of Montreal" by Charles W. Stokes, and "Acadia (Nova Scotia)" published by the Dominion Atlantic Railway. One of her landscapes and two Nova Scotia harbour scenes can be found in the National Gallery of Canada.
Media used
Painting
Watercolour
Education
Bushey School of Art, Bushey, England (under B. Herkomer)
Académie Julian, Paris (under Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre)
File & Archive locations
University of Calgary Library, AB
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
Frick Art Reference Library, NY
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
An Exhibition of Canadian Paintings Held at Fortnum and Mason Limited. London: 1955
"Annual Art Show Open By Bertha Des Clayes." Gazette (Montreal) 8 Dec. 1936
"Art Association Spring Exhibition Opened Last Night." Montreal Herald 17 Mar. 1933
"Art Association's Spring Exhibition: Private View Ushered in Showing of Representative Assemblage of Work." Gazette (Montreal) 3 Apr. 1925
"Art of Canadians Well Represented." Gazette (Montreal) 19 Nov. 1920: 1
"Art Works On View Set High Standard: Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Royal Canadian Academy Is Opened." Gazette (Montreal) 17 Nov. 1916
"Artists Young and Well-Known in Exhibition." Montreal Herald 4 Apr. 1918
"Au salon du printemps." Le Devoir (Montreal) 18 Apr. 1922: 1-2
"Autumn and Spring Scenes." Montreal Star 5 Dec. 1934
"Beau geste d'artistes de la capitale." La Presse 28 Jan. 1915
"Beauty of Autumn Well Interpreted." Montreal Star 16 Nov. 1937
"Berthe Des Clayes Shows Work At the Watson Art Galleries." Gazette (Montreal) 1 Feb. 1941
"Bohemian Crowd At Opening of New Art Rooms." Montreal Daily Star 3 Mar. 1913
"Clever Sketches Of City in Winter." Montreal Star 4 May 1932
"Des Clayes' Pictures Blaze Of Autumn Tints." Montreal Star 30 Nov. 1932
"Des oeuvres remarquables au salon du printemps." La Presse (Montreal) 5 Apr. 1924: 23
"Exhibition of Works by Berthe Des Clayes." Gazette (Montreal) 18 Jan. 1941
"Exposition artistique à Montréal." La Presse (Montreal) 21 Mar. 1919: 21
"Exposition de peintures par nos artistes." La Presse (Montreal) 1 Apr. 1921: 7
"Exposition de tableaux par le peintre J. Jutras." La Presse (Montreal) 14 Apr. 1925
"Exposition remarquable chez Eaton." La Presse (Montreal) 8 Oct. 1927: 45
"Fewer Paintings, Higher Standards: Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Art Association of Montreal." Gazette (Montreal) 1 Apr. 1921
"Final Week of Show By Bertha Des Clayes." Gazette (Montreal) 8 Feb. 1941
"Fine Arts, Crafts and Decoration." Gazette (Montreal) 1 Feb. 1941
"Fine Work Marks R.C.A. Exhibition." Gazette (Montreal) 20 Nov. 1925
"L'Academie Royale Canadienne des Arts." Le Devoir (Montreal) 23 Nov. 1933
"L'Exposition de peinture." La Presse (Montreal) 22 Nov. 1913
"L'Exposition de peintures." La Presse (Montreal) 23 Mar. 1912
"L'exposition du printemps a la galerie des arts." Le Canada 31 Mar. 1923: 10,14.
"La Galérie Eaton: L'exposition des artistes de la province de Québec." La Patrie (Montreal) 21 Oct. 1927: 14
"Le salon de peinture: La Princesse Patricia de Connaught expose ses oeuvres au Salon." Le Canada (Montreal) 16 Mar. 1927: 12
"Le Salon du Printemps." La Patrie (Montreal) 26 Mar. 1928: 17
"Le Salon du Printemps." Le Canada (Montreal) 5 Apr. 1926
"Le Salon du printemps." Le Devoir (Montreal) 1 Apr. 1921: 8
"Le salon du printemps." Le Devoir (Montreal) 4 Apr. 1940: 4
"Le salon du Printemps: Les Tableaux" La Patrie (Monreal) 7 Apr. 1924: 5
"Le Vernissage du printemps à la Galérie des Arts." La Patrie (Montreal) 16 Mar. 1923: 15
"Meritorious Work At Spring Exhibit: Mural Paintings in R.C.A. Competition Part of Entries at Art Gallery." Gazette (Montreal) 28 Mar. 1924
"Montreal Artists Well Represented: High Standard Set at Spring Exhibition of Art Association." Gazette (Montreal) 16 Mar. 1923: 6
"Notable Pictures in the Art Exhibition." Toronto Daily Star 20 Nov. 1919
"Nouvelle visite au salon des artistes." La Presse (Montreal) 6 Apr. 1925: 27
"Onze tableaux pour le musée de la capitale." La Presse (Montreal) 24 Nov. 1913
"Ouverture de l'exposition de peintures." La Presse (Montreal) 19 Nov. 1920: 29
"Pictures by Miss des Clayes." Montreal Star 17 Nov. 1937
"Post Impressionists Shock Local Art Lovers At The Local Spring Exhibition." Montreal Daily Witness 26 Mar. 1913
"Presents Picture As In Memoriam." Montreal Star 24 Jan. 1934
"Private View Held at Art Exhibition." Gazette (Montreal) 27 Mar. 1926
"Protestations des artistes canadiens." La Patrie (Montreal) 9 Dec. 1932
"Quelques héros de Louis Hémon en sculpture." La Presse (Montreal) 24 Mar. 1922
"Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Open Galleries." Montreal Herald 19 Nov. 1915
"Spring Art Show has 478 Exhibits." Gazette (Montreal) 26 Mar. 1915
"Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries. Younger Men and Women Encouraged by Jury of Selection. Proportion of Paintings by "Arrived" Artists Smaller Than Usual-Over 350 Works on View." Gazette (Montreal) 23 Mar. 1928: 8
"Spring Exhibition at Art Gallery is Along Normal Lines." Montreal Star 21 Mar. 1923: 1-2
"Spring Exhibition At Art Gallery: Opened For Private View Last Night With Many Meritorious Works." Gazette (Montreal) 26 Mar. 1913
"Spring Exhibition at the Art Galleries." Montreal Herald 4 Apr. 1921
"Spring Exhibition at the Montreal Art Gallery." Montreal Daily Star 11 Mar. 1911
"Spring Exhibition of Art Association was Opened on Thursday." Toronto Star 12 Mar. 1933
"Spring Exhibition of the Art Association of Montreal." Toronto Star 22 Mar. 1933
"Spring Exhibition." Montreal Star 16 Apr. 1924
"Talented Sisters Show Paintings." Gazette (Montreal) 24 Jan. 1934
"The Fine Arts: Two Gifted Sisters." Montreal Star 2 Mar. 1912
"Three Sisters Combine in Exhibition." Montreal Star 16 Dec. 1931
"Tom Dohan Bequest Brings Painting to Be Hung Collegiate." Sun (Swift Current, Saskatchewan) 29 Apr. 1953
"Une étude sur l'art canadien." La Patrie (Montreal) 18 Apr. 1934: 37
Bradfield, Helen Pepall. Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1970
Canadian National Exhibition. Canadian National Exhibition: Department of Fine Arts, August 23rd - September 6th, 1919. Toronto: 1919
Canadian National Exhibition. Canadian National Exhibition: Department of Fine Arts, August 25-September 10th, 1917. Toronto: 1917
Canadian National Exhibition. Canadian National Exhibition: Department of Fine Arts, August 26-September 7th, 1918. Toronto: 1918
Canadian National Exhibition. Catalogue of Paintings and International Graphic Art: Toronto, August 27th - September 10th, 1921. Toronto: Canadian National Exhibition, 1921
Canadian National Exhibition. Catalogue of Paintings, Graphic Art and Photography, Toronto, August 23-September 6th, 1924. Toronto: Canadian National Exhibition, 1924
Canadian Newspaper Service. Canadian Newspaper Service Reference Book: Biographical Reference Data and General Information. Montreal: Canadian Newspaper Service, Ltd, 1940
Christie's Canada. Early Canadian watercolours, topographical and historical drawings, important early Canadian portraits and fine paintings and drawings by Canadian artists of the 19th and 20th century; English and Fre Montreal: Christie's Canada, 1969
Comeau, André. Artistes Plasticiens. Montreal: Bellarmin, 1983
E. D. "Exposition des oeuvres antiques de nos articles quebecois, chez Eaton." La Presse (Montreal) 8 May 1929
Fabien, Henri. "À la Galérie des beaux-arts." Le Devoir (Montreal) 3 Apr. 1915
Farr, Dorothy and Luckyj, Natalie. From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1975
Girard, Henri. "Le Salon du Printemps." La Revue Moderne (May 1930): 10
Gordon, E.J. "Luncheon Marks Polish Exchange Agreeement." Gazette (Montreal) 12 Mar. 1988: J5
H.P.B. "I.A.A. Opens Exhibition with 300 Canvases." Montreal Daily Star 12 Oct. 1932: 8
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Kerr, Estelle. "Concerning Canadian Art." Courier (7 Oct. 1916?)
Laberge, Albert. "Causerie en marge du salon du printemps." La Presse (Montreal) 3 Apr. 1923
Lafleur, Paul T. "To Promote Art in Minor Centres." Gazette (Montreal) 9 Dec. 1913
Laurette, Patrick C. Scottish Painting in Canada. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1978
Lemieux, Yves. "Le 50e Salon du Printemps." Le Devoir (Montreal) 8 Apr. 1933
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MacTavish, Newton. Ars Longa. Toronto: The Ontario Publishing Co., 1925
MacTavish, Newton. The Fine Arts in Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1925
Masters Gallery. Berthe Des Clayes, 1877-1968 Calgary: The Gallery, 1983
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Formerly Art Association of Montreal: Spring Exhibitions, 1880-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Royal Canadian Academy of Arts/Académie royale des arts du Canada: Exhibitions and Members 1880-1979 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981
Morgan-Powell, S. "Originality and Crude Paintings at Exhibition." Montreal Star 18 Nov. 1916
Morgan-Powell, S. "Spring Show is Notable; Progress Keynote." Montreal Daily Star 26 Mar. 1915: 8
National Gallery of Canada. Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture: Canadian School. Ottawa: Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada, 1957
Nixon, Virginia. "Galerie Bernard Desroches." Gazette (Montreal) 24 Aug. 1974
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Petteys, Chris, et al. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985
Powell, S. Morgan. "R.C.A. Annual Exhibition is Here for Month." Montreal Daily Star 22 Nov. 1915: 2
Powell, S. Morgan. "Spring Exhibition." Montreal Star 7 Apr. 1926
Prefontaine, Fernand. "Le Salon du Printemps." La Patrie (Montreal) 27 Mar. 1926: 31
Reynald. "Le 50e salon du printemps." La Presse (Montreal) 17 Mar. 1933
Robson, Albert Henry. Canadian Landscape Painters. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1932
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Royal Canadian Academy and Ontario Society of Artists. Catalogue of the Joint Exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and of the Ontario Society of Artists, 1918. Toronto: 1918
Saint-Yves, Paul. "Au 'Salon du Printemps'." Le Devoir (Montreal) 30 Mar. 1927
Saint-Yves, Paul. "Aux Galeries Eaton." Le Devoir (Montreal) 10 Oct. 1927
Sewell, John. "Clock Has Royal Connection." Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario) 11 Feb. 2006: H3
Sewell, John. "Keeping Royal Time." Ottawa Citizen 11 Feb. 2006: I.12
Sewell, John. "Swedish Cartel Clock Fit for a King." Toronto Star 21 Jan. 2006: P4
Trepanier, Esther and Landry, Pierre. Femmes artistes du XXe siecle au Quebec: Oeuvres du Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec. Quebec, Quebec: Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, 2010.
Westbridge, Anthony R. The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction. Vancouver: Westbridge Publications, 2001

Writings by
Carlyle, Randolph; illustrated by Berthe Des Clayes. "Up the Great Lakes." Canadian Magazine 49.2 (Jun. 1917): 101-107
Dominion Atlantic Railway; Berthe Des Clayes, illustrator. Acadia. Kentville, Nova Scotia: Dominion Atlantic Railway, 1920
Laliberté, Alfred. Les Artistes de mon temps. Montreal: Le Boréal, 1986
Lowrey, Mary E.; illustrations by Berthe Des Clayes. "An Adventure in Youth." Canadian Magazine 48.6 (Apr. 1917): 507-514
Stokes, Charles W.; Berthe Des Clayes, illustrator. Here and There in Montreal and the Island of Montreal: An Illustrated Descriptive Guide to the Historical and Picturesque Landmarks and Places of Interest in Montreal and Environs. Toronto: Musson, 1924
Thonley, Betty; illustrations by Berthe Des Clayes. "From Grand Pré to the Sea." Canadian Magazine 47 (Aug. 1916): 277-83

Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Last Show in Old Gallery. Spring Art Exhibition Opening on March 15th Will be a Large One. Many New Exhibitors."  Daily Witness (Montreal)  .  p.4.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Fine Arts. A Coming Art Event."  Montreal Star  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Princess Patricia's Work Shown at Spring Exhibition of the Art Association."  Daily Witness (Montreal)  .  p.11.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Opening, a Social Event. A Princess Exhibits."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.4.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Show Looks as if Hanging Committee Slept."  Montreal Herald  .  p.1-2.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Pictures Shown at Spring Exhibition of the Art Gallery Reach a High Level."  Montreal Star  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Le salon de peinture. La Princesse Patricia de Connaught expose ses oeuvres au salon - les toiles sont plus nombreuses et plus soignées que par la passé - beaux portraits de Sir Wilfred Laurier et de l'Hon. M. Berthiaume."  Le Canada (Montréal)  .  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "L'exposition de peinture. Le 29ième salon, sous les auspices de la "Art Association", est ouvert au public depuis jeudi soir - Un succés."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Léon Lorrain.  "Le salon de printemps."  Le Devoir (Montréal)  .  p.1.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Albert Laberge.  "L'exposition de Peintures. Appréciation des oeuvres de nos principaux artistes. De beaux portraits par MM. Russell, Saint-Charles, Dyonnet et Franchére. Remarquables envois de Milles Des Clayes. Une tendance à peindre des toiles excentriques."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.20.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Agnes Chesley.  "Montreal."  American Art News  .  10.25: p.6.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibtion: (Ottawa, ) "L'Académie Royale Canadienne."  Le Devoir (Montreal)  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibtion: (Ottawa, ) Roy Franklin Fleming.  "Royal Canadian Academy of Art."  Yearbook of Canadian Art  .  p.205-209.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "L'exposition de peintures."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.35.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S.M.P..  "Art Association Exhibition Shows Notable Features. Canadian Artists Have at Last Realized Possibilities of Canadian Art School."  Montreal Star  .  p.1.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Post Impressionists Shock Local Art Lovers at the Spring Art Exhibition."  Daily Witness (Montreal)  .  P.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Gallery. Opened for Private View Last Night with Many Meritorious Works. Some Post Impressions."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.13.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Montreal."  American Art News  .  11.25: p.3.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) M.L.A.F..  "Younger Painters Dominate This Time at O.S.A. Exhibition. Some Impressions of the Year's Best Work Gathered by Star Critic-Measure of Improvement Noted."  Toronto Star  .  P.7.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan Powell.  "Art Association Exhibition Shows Notable Advance. Artists Manifesting Determination to Get Away from Deadly Routine."  Montreal Star  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Princess Patricia's Pictures Hung in the Royal Academy."  Montreal Herald  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Montreal Artists Are Well Represented at R.C.A.'s Annual Exhibit."  Montreal Herald  .  p.11.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Agnes Chesley.  "Pictures Worth Seeing."  Montreal Herald  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Paul T. Lafleur.  "To Promote Art In Minor Centres. Prof. Lafleur Advocates Sending Best Canadian Pictures for Temporary Shows."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) J.W. Beatty.  "The Royal Canadian Academy of 1913."  Canadian Courier  .  p.5-6.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Strong and Varied Pictures at the O.S.A. Exhibition."  The Globe (Toronto)  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Hector Charlesworth.  "Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition."  Toronto Saturday Night  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Variety in Spring Picture Exhibit. Private View Opened 31st Spring Show at Art Gallery Last Night. Works Number Over 400. Sanity, Sincerity and Progress Characterize Majority of Pictures-Various Branches Well Represented."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.11.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Hector Charlesworth.  "The R.C.A Exhibition."  Saturday Night  .  p.4.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Art Show Has 478 Exhibits. Even Excellence Dominant Note at Art Association Which Opened Last Night. Nothing Very Daring."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Morgan S. Powell.  "Spring Picture Show is Notable: Progress Keynote. Evidence of Desire to Get Away from Beaten Track Revealed. Promise of Good Things to Come. Individual Imagination is Being Given Chance of Assertion."  Montreal Star  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Martial Note in Pictures Shown. Royal Canadian Academy Exhibition Has Work by Artists Now at Front."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Open Galleries. 288 Fine Pictures on Exhibition at 37th Annual Exhibition."  Montreal Herald  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Exhibition is Here for Month. Some Attractive Works Along Interesting Lines are Hung. Frames Show an Improvement. Several Artists Manifest Determination to Break from Tradition."  Montreal Star  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Nearly 400 Pictures in Spring Exhibition at the Art Galleries Now."  Montreal Herald  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Younger Artists Well Represented. Some Leading Exhibitors Are Absent from Thirty-Third Spring Exhibition."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Some Pictures. Further Notes on Pictures at the Spring Show."  Montreal Star  .  p.14,21.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Henri Fabien.  "Au salon du printemps. Peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs."  Le Devoir (Montréal)  .  p.1.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Works on View Set High Standard."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) G.L..  "Au salon de peinture."  L'Autorite (Montreal)  .  p.4.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Many Fine Paintings at O.S.A. Exhibition."  The Globe (Toronto)  .  p.21.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "No Freak Pictures at Spring Show. Big Exhibition at Art Gallery but Works Small in Size. An Added Attraction: French War Posters, Medals and Souvenirs on View to Aid Red Cross Work."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.13.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Spring Show at Art Gallery is Return to Sanity. Tendency to Formlessness Freak Coloring and Distortions Gone."  Montreal Star  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Toronto"  American Art News  .  15.25: p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) E.B..  "Artists Young and Well-known in Exhibition."  Montreal Herald  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Gallery. Returned Soldier Exhibits Two Works Sketched at the Front."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Montreal"  American Art News  .  17.10: p.5.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) M.L.F..  "Notable Pictures in the Art Exhibition. Other Features of the Show Which is to Open at the Gallery Friday."  Toronto Star  .  p.13.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Great Variety Marks Annual Academy Show. Canada Maintains Its Lead in Array of Pictures at Art Gallery."  Globe (Toronto)  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Artist's Efforts Reach High Level."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art of Canadians Well Represented."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Royal Canadian Academy's 42nd Exhibition Open."  Montreal Star  .  p.30.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Royal Canadian Academy Forty-Second Exhibition."  Montreal Herald  .  p.30.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Ouverture de l'exposition de peintures. Nos artistes s'affirment comme de vigoureux et hardis coloristes."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.24.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Le salon du printemps."  Le Devoir (Montreal)  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Exposition de peintures par nos artistes. Quantité de toiles remarquables et fort intéressantes exposées au salon."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Fewer Paintings, Higher Standards. Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Art Association of Montreal. Private View Last Night."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.11.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at the Art Galleries."  Montreal Herald  .  p.3.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Portraits Are Feature of the Art Exhibition."  Montreal Star  .  p.21.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "National Gallery Buys Eight Works."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.8..   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Exhibits Drawn From Wide Area. Growing Importance of Spring Art Exhibition More Generally Recognized."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Quelques heros de Louis Hemon en sculpture. Maria Chapdelaine, son père et sa mère figurent au Salon des Artistes. Oeuvres de Suzor Cote."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Mogan-Powell.  "Vivid Portraits at Art Exhibition are Outstanding Feature."  Montreal Star  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "High Standard Set by R.C.A. Pictures. Forty-Fourth Exhibition Opened With Private View Last Night."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.9.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Montreal Artists Well Represented. High Standard Set at Spring Exhibition of Art Association."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Spring Exhibition at Art Gallery is Along Normal Lines."  Montreal Star  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Eight Pictures for National Gallery. Six Montreal Painters Have Works Purchased by Canadian Government."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "L'exposition du printemps a la galerie des arts."  Le Canada (Montreal)  .  pp.10,4.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Albert Laberge.  "Causerie en marge du salon du printemps. Peintres qui font de la sculpture et sculpteurs qui font des tableaux. Les Paysagistes."  La Presse  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Montreal"  American Art News  .  21.27: p.7.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Work of Canadian Painters at Royal Academy of Arts is of Satisfactory Quality."  Globe (Toronto)  .  p.14.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Hector Charlesworth.  "Royal Canadian Academy. Probably the Finest Display in its History With Montreal Much to the Fore."  Toronto Saturday Night  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "Contrasted Styles in Canadian Art."  Mail and Empire (Toronto)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Meritorious Work at Spring Exhibit. Mural Paintings in R.C.A. Competition Part of Entries at Art Gallery."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.15.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Des oeuvres remarquables au salon du printemps."  La Presse  .  p.23.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (, ) "Des oeuvres remarquables au salon du printemps. Toiles intéressant par MM. Jongers, Maillard, Robinson, Cullen, Caron, Graham, Burgoyne, Mlles Rita Mount, Kathleen, Morris, etc. L'art de la gravure sur bois."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.23.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Montreal"  American Art News  .  22.27: p.9.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Spring Exhibition."  Montreal Star  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association's Spring Exhibition."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "L'art et les artists. Nouvelle visite au salon des artistes. De gracieuses sculptures."  La Presse  .  p.13.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Fine Work Marks R.C.A. Exhibition. New Schools Offer Contrast to Solidly-Based Qualities of Older and Established Painters."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Private View Held at Art Exhibition. Committee of Selection Had to Perform Obviously Difficult Task. Many Omissions Noted."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) J. René de Cotret.  "Le salon de printemps. Un grand nombre d'oeuvres qui méritent l'attention sont actuellent en exposition à la Galerie des Arts."  Le Canada  .  p.?.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries Is an Indifferent Show."  Montreal Star  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) H. P. Bell.  "Landscape Prevails in Spring Exhibition of Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Over 300 Exhibits in Spring Art Show. Forty-fourth Exhibition Opened with Private View Last Night. Will Close April 18. Landscapes and Marines Predominate - Some Prominent Artists and Several of Younger Group Unrepresented."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Paul Saint-Yves.  "Au "salon du printemps.""  Le Devoir (Montreal)  .  p.3.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Forty-Ninth Annual R.C.A. Exhibition at Art Galleries Here."  Montreal Star  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Albert Laberge.  "Appréciation de quelques toiles du Salon des artistes Canadiens."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.52.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries. Younger Men and Women Encouraged by Jury of Selection."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "Forty-Fifth Annual Spring Exhibition of the Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell.  "The Spring Exhibition."  Star (Montreal)  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries. Jury Selection Sympathetic to Sincere and Normal Work - Promise Shown by New Exhibitors."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "R.C.A. Show Opened with Private View. Fifty-first Annual Exhibition Housed in Art Association Galleries."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.18.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Un interessant salon d'automne. C'est celui de l'Académie Royale qui se tient à la Gallerie des Arts, rue Sherbrooke."  Le Canada (Montreal)  .  p.4.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) H. Poynter Bell.  "The Fifty-First Exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy."  Royal Architectural Institute of Canada  .  pp.29-33.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition Has Private View."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.3.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Henri Girard.  "Le salon du printemps."  Revue Moderne  .  10.7: p.10.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association 48th Spring Show High In Interest."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.16.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Henri Girard..  "La vie artistique. Le salon du printemps."  Le Canada (Montreal)  .  p.1.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Wide Range of Art In R.C.A. Exhibition."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Landscapes, Portraits, Water Colors, Sculpture, Viewed at Exhibition of Royal Canadian Academy."  Montreal Star  .  p.11.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Paintings Show Big Advance on Those of Last Exhibition.`"  Standard (Montreal)  .  p.54.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association Has Forty-Ninth Annual Spring Exhibition."  Montreal Star  .  p.7.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association's Spring Exhibition Is 49th of Series. Some Five Hundred Works Greet Invited Guests at Private View."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Ontario Society of Artists Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Hector Charlesworth.  "O.S.A's Sixtieth Show."  Toronto Saturday Night  .  p.10.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Pictures at Art Association Have Wide Variety in Theme."  Montreal Star  .  p.12.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Henri Girard.  "Le salon du printemps."  Le Canada (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "New Names on Roster of Artists Whose Work Academy Has Accepted. Fifty-third Annual Exhibition Royal Canadian Academy Opened- Two Hundred Canvases."  Evening Telegram (Toronto)  .  p.14.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) "The Royal Canadian Academy."  Canadian Homes and Gardens  .  9:12: pp.21-23,42.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition of Art Association Was Opened on Thursday."  Montreal Star  .  p.19.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "50th Spring Show Opened to Public. Jury Shows Open Mind. From Over 1,000 Entries, 543 Works Representative of Various Schools Have Been Selected."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.6.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Reynald.  "Le 50e salon du printemps. L'exposition la plus nombreuse et la plus diverse jamais réunie. Lentes orientations vers le colorisme. La part des femmes. Les Canadiens-français."  La Presse  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association Spring Exhibition Opened Last Night."  Herald (Montreal)  .  p.?.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition of the Art Association of Montreal"  Montreal Star  .  17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Yves Lemieux.  "Le 50e Salon du Printemps."  Le Devoir  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Many Artists from Toronto in Royal Academy Showing."  Evening Telegram (Toronto)  .  p.4.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) H. Rooney Pelletier.  "Canada's Art Exhibit Reveals New Ability. Increased Average of Mature Technique Noted at Opening."  Mail and Empire (Toronto)  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Governor-General Opens Annual Art Exhibition. His Excellency Recalls Tradition of Predecessors-Stresses Art's Part in Renaissance of National Taste."  Montreal Star  .  p.20.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) H. Rooney Pelletier.  "Better Technique Noted at R.C.A. Arts Display."  Ottawa Citizen  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association Spring Show Opens. Private View Inaugurates Exhibition Containing Over Five Hundred Works."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Fifty-First Spring Exhibition of the Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.15.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Reynald.  "Le 51e salon de printemps. Morte-saison pour les nôtres."  La Presse (Montreal)  .  p.29.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Nearly 500 Works at Spring Exhibit. Variety in Show at Galleries of Art Association of Montreal. 1,080 Items Submitted. Judges Reveal Open Minds and 52nd Annual Contains Much to Meet Differing Tastes."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.3.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition of Art Association Opened on Thursday."  Montreal Star  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition.: (Montreal, ) "The Fifty-Sixth Exhibition of the Canadian Academy."  Montreal Star  .  p.13.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition.: (Montreal, ) "Art Gallery Scene of R.C.A. Exhibition. Paintings and Other Works from Various Canadian Points Total 444. Much Good Portraiture."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.19.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition on Generous Scale. Show at Art Gallery Opened Last Night Contains 621 Items."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Annual Spring Exhibition at Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.8.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Nearly 500 Works at Spring Exhibit. Art Association's 54th Annual Show Opens with Private Views. Judges Open-Minded."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.13,17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "The Spring Exhibition of the Art Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Works in Art Exhibition Are of Unusual Merit. New Policy of Showing More Carefully Selected Pieces Followed by Association."  Montreal Star  .  p.17.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association's Spring Exhibition. Portrait Studies Especially Good; Fewer Landscapes."  Standard (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Henri Girard..  "La vie artistique. Le salon du printemps."  Le Canada (Montreal)  .  p.2.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (, ) "R.C.A. Exhibition Has Private View. Over 300 Works in Galleries of Art Association of Montreal. Standard Maintained."  Gazette (Montreal)  .  p.5.   Full-text pdf
Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (, ) "Canadian Academy Opens Sixtieth Exhibition."  Montreal Star  .  p.11.   Full-text pdf
Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Association Opens 57th Spring Exhibit. Notable Feature of Display Is Unusually Large Proportion Of Portraits or Portrait Studies."  Montreal Star  .  p.19.   Full-text pdf

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