ing class‘of the *
Vancouver School. of.

Decorative and Applied

‘Arts in 1929.

She later studied with BH.

Hley.and Charles H.: Scott’.
td postgraduate year spe

In 193] she was awarded 2
scholarship to study at the
Royal Academy in London,
England. After her studies she
returaed to Vancouver and
taught painting and drawing
at her alma mater from 1933
to 1937.

During this time, she
painted extensively around
the province, particularly the
shorelines of Burrard Inlet.
Later, she would paint the
Cariboo region accompanied
by her husband, their cocker
spaniel Rusty, and Bert (B.C,)

" and Jessic Binning.

the’ first graduat- ,

In 1934, her parents
moved to West Vancouver
and sold part of their lot to
Bert and Jessie Binning. From
1935 to 1936 Irene and her

: husband Neville built their
~house at 29th and Mathers

and had Pert Binning design =
the studio.
- During her carces Irene

Hoffar Reid was President of

Friday, December 17, 1899 —- Nerth Store News - 25

left legacy of art

phote West Van Museum and Archives
IRENE Hoffar Reid
taught painting at the
Vancouver School of
Decorative and Applied
Arts in the ’30s.

the B.C. Society of Painters
and the Canadian Group of
Painters, In 1967 she was
awarded the Centennial
medal for Service to the
Nation in the Arts,

Her last major show in
West Vancouver was in 1979

when she had a one-woman
exhibition at The Studio
Shop. Her longtime friend
Alistair Bell wrote the cata-
logue text for the show. That
same year she moved ta
Sidney on Vancouver Island.

There of her paintings
were included in the
Vancouver Art Gailery’s exhi-
bition, Vancouver: Art and
Artists 1931-1983. Her work
is represented in the collec-
tions of the Art Gallery of
Greater Victoria, the British
Columbia Arts Collection and
the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Upon her death in 1994,
she donated her beautifull
waterfronc property in Sidney
for a park.

Irene Hoffar Reid is one
of many artists featured in
Generations: Five Decades of
Art in West Vancouver 1912-
1962, at West Vancouver
Museum and Archives, 680
17th St., West Vancouver.

The exhibit closes Dee. 18.
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