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LOVELAND, Louise A.
- Born
- Sudbury, England, ca 1869
- Died
- Victoria, B.C., 1941
- Biography synopsis
- After moving to Victoria, Louise Ada Loveland, became a member of the Island Arts and Crafts Society soon after her arrival. In addition to exhibiting with the Soceity, she oversaw various exhibition sections including oil paintings, pastels, and black and white sketches. She exhibited with the Island Arts and Crafts Society for a number of years, from at least 1913 to 1941. She focused on depictions of Victoria’s landmarks, streets, and the harbour as well as portraiture of local female artists including Maude Lettice and Gertrude Shaw. Loveland also showed her work in the B.C. Artists annual exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 1933 to 1940. In 1932 she was a signatory with other artists to protest and boycott the National Gallery for favoring a few at the expense of the great majority of Canadian artists. She exhibited at the Art Association of Montreal Spring Exhibition in 1921, and in 1947 at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
- Media used
- Oil painting
- Pastels
- Watercolour
- Memberships
- Island Arts and Crafts Society
- File & Archive locations
- British Columbia Archives
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Rebels and Realists: 100 Years of the Victoria Sketch Club Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, 2009
http://legacy.uvic.ca/gallery/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/Rebels-and-Realists-Catalogue.pdf - "Canadian Artists Unite to Boycott National Gallery." Montreal Gazette 8 Dec. 1932
- "Local Artists to Participate." Daily Colonist (Victoria). 21 May 1930: 7
- "Social and Personal: Leave on Sketching Trip." Daily Colonist (Victoria) 22 July 1930: 8
- “Arts Society to Hold Exhibition.” Times Colonist (Victoria). 9 Oct. 1928
- “Many Exhibits for Arts Society Show.” Times Colonist 15 Oct 1926
- “Obituary.” Times Colonist (Victoria). 24 Jully 1941
- Lover, John Gordon. The Victoria Sketch Club: A Centennial Celebration, 1909-2009 Victoria, B.C.: Victoria Sketch Club, 2008
Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, April 01, 1921) "Fewer Paintings, Higher Standards. Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Art Association of Montreal. Private View Last Night." Gazette (Montreal) April 01, 1921. p.11. Full-text pdf
