Continuing from yesterday’s post, Westward Ho! magazine became Man-to-Man magazine in 1910, and then British Columbia Magazine in 1911. The Man-to-Man cover is again drawn by S.P. Judge, and the May 1911 cover of British Columbia Magazine is drawn by R.B. Unsworth. Both covers have been retouched slightly by me. I should add the first cover here has been positively identified as the Hastings Mill, at the foot of Dunlevy Avenue. I’ve written a rather lengthy post about this publication at VancouverIsAwesome.com.

Westward Ho! Magazine cover by S.P. Judge, from the May, 1908 issue (cover image tweaked by me). This issue was originally scanned by Archive.org from the collection of Robarts U of T Library and paid for with money from Microsoft. His early Vancouver ‘portfolio/scrapbook’ is outstanding, located in the S.P. Judge fonds at the UBC Special Collections. From Gary Sim’s British Columbia Artists:

Spencer Perceval Judge was one of the “wave” of trained English artists who emigrated to Canada around 1900 and settled in Vancouver. He became a major influence on the growth of art in Vancouver, as an artist, a teacher, a founder of art groups - especially the B.C. Society of Fine Arts, and as an author on art and crafts instruction.

He was born in Surbiton, England, and arrived in Vancouver in 1902 with his family. He was a founding member of the Vancouver Studio Club, and was one of its art teachers.

Judge exhibited in Vancouver, starting at least as early as 1903 in a group exhibition with T.W. Fripp and James Blomfield…

Judge advertised in Westward Ho! magazine for his School of Art in 1907, with a by-line noting that he was “certificated South Kensington, London, Eng.”…

Vancouver Heights, illustrating the new city reservoir supplied from Seymour Creek, overlooking Hastings Race Track and the Burrard Inlet, a project that was completed in 1908. Drawn by S. P. (Spencer Perceval/Percival) Judge, one of Vancouver’s early illustrating giants. In addition to designing the school crest for Kitsilano Secondary School (he was the first art teacher at Kitsilano), his illustrations appeared regularly in Vancouver Tourism brochures (seen here previously) and in School Days magazine. As I mentioned before, he also painted a series of watercolours of the early Union Steamship fleet in 1905, which I would like to try and track down. They hung on the walls of the company’s boardroom and were acquired by Gerald Rushton, who wrote the book on Union Steamship twice. If anyone knows where they may have ended up, please let me know!

Vancouver cover page, by S P (Spencer Perceval/Percival) Judge, dated 1906, and published by the Vancouver Tourist Association, from the VPL Special Collections. Produced a couple years after this image, seen this past week.

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Vancouver, the Sunset Doorway of the Dominion, by S P (Spencer Perceval/Percival) Judge, dated 1904, and published by the Vancouver Tourist Association, from the VPL Special Collections. According to Gary Sim’s “Art & Artists in Exhibition: Vancouver 1890 - 1950”, Spencer Perceval Judge emigrated to Canada around 1900 and was a major influence on the growth of art in Vancouver; Judge exhibited in a group exhibition with T.W. Fripp and James Blomfield in 1903, and he painted a series of watercolours of the early Union Steamship fleet in 1905.

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