William Percy Weston :: 1879 - 1967

Gallery Endnotes

1. "Vancouver Artist Still Works Vigorously at 79," Port Arthur News Chronicle 9 June 1953.

   "Fifty Years of Painting in BC: A History Told in Pictures of Mountain, Trees and Sea" was the title of a retrospective exhibit on Weston in 1959, celebrating his 50^th anniversary in Canada.

2. Weston, quoted in Letia Richardson, Silence and Solitude: The Art of W.P. Weston, (Richmond: Richmond Art Gallery, 1980) 11.
3. From: Heffel Fine Art Auction House catalogue
4. Richardson, 11
5. Ian M. Thom, introduction, W.P. Weston, by Heffel Gallery (Vancouver: Heffel Gallery, 1991) l 7.
6. Richardson, 22
7. Weston, quoted in Anne Raine, Teachers' Workbook, Silence and Solitude: The Art of W.P. Weston, (Richmond: Richmond Art Gallery, 1993).
8. Ian M. Thom, W.P. Weston, (Victoria: The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1980) 12.
9. Thom, Victoria, 12
10. Richardson, 11
11. Thom, Victoria, 10
12. Geneva Lent, "Noted B.C. Artist in One Man Show," Calgary Herald 15 Nov 1944.
13. Richardson, 21
14. Lent
15. Weston, quoted in Richardson, 14
16. Richardson, 25
17. Lent
18. Thom, Victoria, 10
19. Port Arthur Chronicle
20. See Weston quote in the Gallery, Mount Cheam, Autumn
21. Marjorie Dallas, Portrait of an Artist: W.P. Weston, A.R.C.A., C.G.P., B.C.S.A., [essay] 24 June, 1962, 8.
22. Mac Reynolds, "Cabbage: It Can Be Art: Weston's 50 Years of Painting in B.C.," Vancouver Sun 24 April 1959.
23. Richardson, 14
24. Richardson, 10
25. Geneva Lent, " West Coast Artist Holds One Man Show at Coste House: Weston Reveals Strong Feeling for Colour Harmonies," Calgary Albertan 17 Nov 1944.
26. Thom, Victoria, 13
27. Thom, Victoria, 13
28. Pallette, "Artist With a Message: W.P. Weston Paints and Teaches to the Fuller Understanding of B.C. and Its Citizens," Vancouver Daily Province 28 Aug 1943.
29. Thom, Victoria, 12
30. Raine
31. Thom, Victoria, 14
32. Thom, Victoria, 10
33. Art Gallery of Victoria Communique, 1980
34. Richardson, 11
35. Weston, quoted in Richardson, 11
36. Dallas, 4
37. Richardson, 13
38. Jean Martin, " W.Weston, Noted City Artist, Dies," Vancouver Province 21 Dec 1967.
39. Lent
40. "Representative Exhibit," Vancouver Sun 15, May 1941.
41. Joan Lowndes, "Weston Imposes His Will Even on the Clouds," Vancouver Province 16 Sept 1966.
42. Dallas, 2
43. Thom, Heffel, 8
44. Mildred Valley Thorton, "Weston Show at Gallery Impressive," Vancouver Sun [Nov 1946].
45. Thom, Victoria, 14
46. Jack Wasserman, "Close Lines," [Vancouver Province] 9 Sept 1966.
47. "Vancouver Artist Still Works Vigorously at 79," Port Arthur Chronicle 9 June 1959.
48. Flora Kyle, "BC Art Master Lecture Subject," Vancouver Sun 29 June 1962.
49. Richardson, 22
50. Thom, Victoria, 10
51. Reynolds
52. Thom, Victoria, 10
53. Reynolds
54. Thom, Victoria, 9
55. Richardson, 22
56. Weston, quoted in Thom, 14
57. Thom, 14
58. Thorton
59. "Art Textbook Author Shows His Paintings," VancouverProvince 25 Sept 1934.
60. "Art Textbook Author Shows His Paintings"
61. Mildred Valley Thorton, "BC Artist in One Man Show," Vancouver Province 7 May 1945.
62. Weston, quoted in Thom, Victoria, 9
63. "Vancouver Artist Still Works Vigorously at 79"
64. "Art Teacher Has Many Hobbies," Toronto Star Weekly 24 July 1937.
65. "Vancouver Artist Still Works Vigorously at 79"
66. Martin
67. Thom, Victoria, 12
68. Kit Lort, "Weston's Art is Even Better in Context," Monday Magazine March 14-20, 1980.
69. Lort
70. "Vancouver Artist Still Works Vigorously"
71. "Artist Considered Crackpot When City 25 Years Old," [Vancouver Sun] 21 May 1960.
72. Pallette , Message
73. Richardson, 12
74. Reynolds
75. Reynolds
76. Thom, Victoria, 10
77. Thom, Victoria, 10
78. Dallas, 9