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Ken Phillips Exhibition History

 EXHIBITION RECORD - KEN PHILLIPS 

Markland Woods Golf Club Mural

 

1928 C.S.G.A. 'Deserted'

 

1929 Mar. - O.S.A. 'Cliff Top' and 'Overhang'           

 

1931 Mar. ‑ O.S.A. 'Invalid'

        May ‑ colour photograph of the painting featured in Toronto Star Weekly;

 

1933 Mar.‑ O.S.A. 'Tanker' and 'Flooding Ice'

 

1934 Dec.‑ O.S.A. 'Marie Cecilia Guard'

        Aug. - C.N.E. Ken's 'Nude' [with daffodils] by critic Pearl McCarthy 'considerable figure study'

        Aug. - C.N.E. - C.S.G.A. 2 graphic works including 'Introspect'           

        C.N.E. non-jury - still life

1935 O.S.A. 'Miss Margot Guard' [black chiffon cape]

         R.C.A.  Self-portrait [with mirror]   

         C.S.G.A. 'Introspect' (wood engraving)

              'Dance' (wood engraving)

              'Introspect' wood engraving purchased by A.G.O.

 

1936 Mar.‑ O.S.A. 'Votaress'; [largest work exhibited - along with Marie's]

         Aug. C.N.E. - C.S.G.A. 'Book Plate for Marie Cecilia Guard' (engraving)

                 'Aphrodite' (engraving)

                 'River Edge' (engraving)

1939 Sept. ‑ Ken's wood engraving 'Introspect' (lent by AGO) was exhibited by the

          Canadian Society of Graphic Art at the World's Fair, NY

 

1942 Mar. ‑ O.S.A. 'Orchard' [this work was purchased by a Toronto pathologist, present whereabouts unknown)

 

1943 April - Non-jury show at A.G. of T. 'Midwinter'

         Exhibited at Trinity Church Art Show, first Port Credit  Anglican Church, an art exhibition to raise funds for war effort

 

1944 Nov. ‑ South Peel Art Exhibition, Port Credit;

 

1945 April ‑ wins Merchant award for best ad of the week in North America, with Dorothy Frey, store advertising department copywriter, and Ira Reid, advertising layout artist;

 

1947 A.G. of T. 'Introspect' from A.G. of T. collection

 

1960  Port Credit Library show.

 

1964 Feb ‑ Port Credit Library show

        April ‑ Ken's drawings of Shea's Hippodrome, reprod. w article Toronto Daily Star;

        Sept. ‑ 'Toronto that Was and London that Is' exhibition at Toronto Central Library;

        Sept. ‑ Ken's drawing of Toronto house reproduced in column in Toronto Daily Star;

 

1965 Ken painted Markland Woods Golf Club mural;

        K's drawing of Henry St. Synagogue included in Hadassah Invitational Art Auction;

        Nov. ‑ Port Credit Library show

 

1967 'Toronto's Past as Seen by Ken Phillips' Simpsons Treasure Gallery, Downtown

 

1960s (late) K exhibited at Toronto Arts & Letters club; proposed  as a member but declined because of time commitment involved   [would have involved frequent return trips in to Toronto at  night]

 

1970s A collection of K's prints was bought and exhibited at the Lock & Key Room of the Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto.

 

1974 'City Street and Country Stream' show for K & M at Simpsons Cedarbrae show.  Ken was commissioned by Ted Burton (later married Toronto personality, Betty Kennedy) to do pictures of Burton's house to be used as Christmas cards.