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.

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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

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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.

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