Biography of MAUD REES SHERMAN

Maud Rees Sherman ( 1900- 1976) was born in Mission City, B.C. She was a charter member of the B.C. Art League in 1921, Vancouver Art School founding student in 1925, member of the Pioneer Art Students of Vancouver Art School (PASOVAS), charter member of the Vancouver Art Gallery 1932, Federation of Canadian Artists founding member 1941, and B.C. Society of Fine Arts member 1947-1951. Sherman exhibited in the 1920 Annual Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts, held at the Vancouver School Board offices on Hamilton Street. Maud was a member of the first class in the new Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts when it opened in 1925, and wrote a long article titled "Places To Sketch" in the first issue of "The Paint Box", the art school's annual. An example of her first year's artwork was also published in that Paint Box and again in the Prospectus for the 1926-1927 school year. She took design with Fred Varley. From at least 1933 to 1935 Maud had a studio in the West End of Vancouver, at 1087 Bute Street, in a house owned by Beatrice Lennie's grandfather. The large old West End house was divided up into a number of other studios. Other artists working there at that time included Fred Varley, Jock MacDonald, and Vera Weatherbie. Maud exhibited her paintings extensively in Vancouver for over forty years, in both juried and open exhibitions. One of her paintings was selected from the juried Fifth B.C. Artists exhibition to go to an exhibition in Chilliwack. Others were selected for the All-Canadian Exhibition of 1932, and the B.C. Society of Fine Arts 40th and 50th Annual Retrospective exhibitions.

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