Josephine Crease

Josephine Crease (August 7, 1864 – December 24, 1947) was a Canadian artist.[1]

Josephine Crease
Born(1864-08-07)7 August 1864
New Westminster, British Columbia
Died24 December 1947(1947-12-24) (aged 83)
Victoria, British Columbia
NationalityCanadian
Alma materKing's College London

Life

She was the daughter of Sir Henry Pering Pellew Crease and Lady Sarah Lindley Crease. She was born in New Westminster and moved to Victoria with her family in 1869. She attended art classes at King's College in London with her sister Susan.

One of her watercolours

Crease took sketching trips around Vancouver Island and painted watercolours of local landscapes. She was a founding member of the Island Arts and Crafts Society, serving as its honorary president in 1939, and a member of the Victoria Sketch Club, serving as its president in 1903. She was included in exhibitions by the British Columbia Society of Fine Arts, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, which exhibited hers work in 1978,[2] and at the Victoria Fair.[3][4][2]

She died in Victoria at the age of 83.[3]

Her work is held in the collections of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.[3]

Further reading
  • For more on the Crease's participation in the arts, see Christina B Johnson-Dean, The Crease family and the arts in Victoria, British Columbia, Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1983.

References
  1. "Person Details for Josephine Crease". familysearch.org. Archived from the original on 2017-03-04. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  2. JOHNSON, CHRISTINA (1 January 1978). "Emily Carr and Others at Victoria". RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. 5 (2): 130–131. JSTOR 42630163.
  3. "Crease, Josephine". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 2017-03-04. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  4. "Josephine Crease". Victoria Sketch Club. Archived from the original on 2017-03-04. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
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