Weatherbie, Vera

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Weatherbie, Vera

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    • Weatherbie, Vera Olivia, 1909-1977

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      1909-1977

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      Vera Weatherbie (1909-1977) was one of the first graduates of the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (VSDAA) in 1929. She is well known for her early association with Group of Seven painter and VSDAA faculty member Frederick Varley and her later marriage to sometime-artist/photographer Harold Mortimer Lamb. These relationships are matters of record, but it is important to remember that Weatherbie was an accomplished painter in her own right, regarded more recently as being underrated during her lifetime.

      Weatherbie enrolled in the first class at the VSDAA in October 1925 at the age of 16. After graduation she took "post-graduate" studies at the School in 1929/30 and later attended the Royal Academy in London, England. She won many awards for her artwork during her association with the VSDAA, including the Vancouver Exhibition Association Scholarship in Drawing & Painting for 1927/28 and 1928/29 and the Fyfe-Smith Travelling Scholarship, 1929/30. Later in 1934, she won the Beatrice Stone Medal in Painting for My-E-En. Her work continued to be shown with some regularity through the early 1950s in Vancouver, Seattle and at national exhibitions. Apparently shunning recognition for herself, there is little record of Weatherbie's activities after the early 1950s. My-E-En was shown at Vancouver Art & Artists, 1931-1983, the exhibition which opened the current location of the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1983.

      To support herself and possibly to have readily-available studio space, Weatherbie taught drawing, composition and painting at the British Columbia College of Art. This contemporary "rival" of the VSDAA was founded in Vancouver by Varley and Jock Macdonald in 1933. The College relied on its tuition base for survival and only managed to do so for two years. It closed in 1935.

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      Revised by BCANS Coordinator, Feb 25, 2012.

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          Michael Clark, "Vera Weatherbie: Vancouver Artist," <i>Visions in the Making: The Official Publication of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design</i>, 2 (September 1995).

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