Sybil Andrews
Biography
1899 Born April 19 in Bury St. Edmunds, East Anglia, England.
1917-20 War work in Coventry building aeroplane parts at Standard Motor Company. Moves to Bristol where, as an oxi-acetylene torch welder, works on construction of the first metal aeroplanes at Bristol Welding Company; in spare time begins to study art - John Hassall's home correspondence course.
1921 Joint exhibition of watercolours and pastels with Cyril Power in Bury St Edmunds at Crescent House (December).
1922 Moves to London where. she attends Heatherley's School of Fine Art; studies under Henry G. Massey.
1923 Leaves Heatherley's and establishes own studio. Independent studies with Polish sculptor Henri Glicenstein.
1925 Joins newly formed Grosvenor School of Modern Art as secretary; learns to make linocuts under the influence of Claude Flight who is teaching the medium at the school.
1928 Leaves Grosvenor School and establishes new London studio at Brook Green, Hammersmith. Begins to make drypoints of popular architectural subjects; this is to be primary source of support during the years of the Depression. Independent studies with Russian ex-patriate artist Boris Héroys.
1929 Included in "The First Exhibition of British Linocuts," The Redfern Gallery, London July 4-29; catalogue introduction by Claude Flight, organizer of the exhibition). Makes first of a series of posters in collaboration with Power (signed 'Andrew-Power'), for the London Passenger Transport Board.
1930 Included In exhibition "British Linocuts," The Redfern Gallery (August; catalogue introduction by Claude Flight).
1931 Included in an exhibition of British linocuts that travels to Peking and Shanghai, China (May); "Third Exhibition of British Linocuts," The Redfern Gallery (August); "12th International Print Makers Exhibition," Los Angeles Museum, USA.
1932 Included in exhibition Modern Colour Prints," The Redfern Gallery (July).
1933 Joint exhibition with Cyril Power of linocuts and monotypes, The Redfern Gallery January 5-28; catalogue). Included in exhibition "Colour Prints," The Redfern Gallery June).
1934 Included in exhibition of linocuts by artists represented by The Redfern Gallery at The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA June 20 - September 20) and "15th International Print Makers Ex-hibition," Los Angeles Museum.
1935 Included in exhibitions "Colour Prints," The Redfern Gallery (July); "Modern Colour Prints,"
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (December 14 - January 23, 1936; catalogue);
"Two Hundred Years of British Graphic Art," Prague, Vienna, Bucharest;
"16th International Print Makers Exhibition," Los Angeles Museum.
1936 Included in exhibitions "Colour Prints,"
The Redfern Gallery (June 25 - July 18) and
"17th International Print Makers Exhibition," Los Angeles Museum.
1938 Moves to Norley Wood near Lymington in southern England. Included in "19th International Print Makers Exhibition," Los Angeles Museum.
1940 Included in exhibition of colour prints at National Gallery of South Australia.
1942 Commences war work in the yards of British Power Boat Company at Hythe near Southampton.
1943 Meets and marries Walter W. Morgan, a co-worker in the shipyards.
1945 Included in colour print exhibition at Gainsborough Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1947 Immigrates to Canada, settling permanently in Campbell River; en route, blocks for several prints are destroyed when they partially melt in the hold of theRoyal Mail, the ship on which she and her husband travel to Canada.
1948 One-person exhibition at The Vancouver Art Gallery (November).
Exhibition of forty linocuts organized by Allied Arts Centre, Calgary (October); exhibition travels for next two-and-a-half years across Canada to Winnipeg, Regina, London, Charlottetown, Wolfville, Sydney, Saint John, Fredericton, Amherst, Brantford, Woodstock.
1949 Included in "Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition," The Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (March 5-31; catalogue); included in these annual exhibitions continuously" until 1969 with the exception of 1955, 1961, 1963, 1966-68.
1951 Elected member of The Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers. Etching Canon Street Bridge wins G. A. Reid Award as best print, C .P.E. annual exhibition. One-person exhibitions at Victoria Arts Centre (April) and Edmonton Museum of Arts (August).
1952 Linocut Indian Dance (cat. no. 45) selected as C.P.E. Presentation Print.
1953 One-person exhibition at Clifford's Galleries, Vancouver (November). Included in "Northwestern Printmakers Annual," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA.
1954 1954 Included in exhibitions "Modern Sacred Art", sponsored by Inter-American Congress of Religious History and Art, Museo Historico de la Iglesia de Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina (October 11-30; illustrated catalogue) and "Northwestern Printmakers Annual," Seattle Art Museum.
1955 One-person exhibition at Clifford's Galleries, Vancouver (May). Included in "Northwestern Printmakers Annual," Seattle Art Museum.
1958 Included In exhibition "A Retrospect Into Canadian Printmaking," Toronto Public Reference Library (April 13 - May 4; catalogue).
1959 Most of the monotypes she made in England are destroyed in a fire at Robertson Gallery, Ottawa.
1960 Begins to teach weekly art classes at her home.
1975 Included in exhibitions 'British Printmakers 1850-1940," P & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London (May 21 - June 17; illustrated catalogue.
1976 One-person exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (December).
1977-78 Included in exhibition 'Futuristi Inglesi: Claude Flight & la Sua Cerchia," that tours Italy (Genoa, Milan, Rome, Bologna, Brescia, Bolsano Padua) under sponsorship of Compagnia del Disegno.
1978 One-person exhibitions at deVooght Galleries Ltd., Vancouver (June; illustrated catalogue) and Masters Gallery, Calgary (October). Included in exhibitions "A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900/1950,"
Deutscher Galleries, Armadale, Victoria, Australia (April 13 - May 5; illustrated catalogue) and "The Movement of Flight," Parkin Gallery (September 27 - October 21; catalogue).
1980 One-person exhibition "Sybil Andrews," Parkin Gallery (October 22 - November 15; illustrated catalogue).
1981 Included in exhibition 'The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers in Retrospect," organized for national tour by the Art Gallery of Hamilton (illustrated catalogue).


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