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St Ives post-1918

1919 Arrived in St Ives
RA Exhibit "Munitions 1918"
Cornishman - Wednesday 07 May 1919
Elected RBA
Cornishman - Wednesday 02 July 1919
Completed set of "Old St Ives" paintings...
Cornishman - Wednesday 30 July 1919
Art gallery for St Ives - an admirable idea...
Cornishman - Wednesday 26 November 1919
1920 RA
Cornishman - Wednesday 10 March 1920
Royal Society of British Artists...
Cornishman - Wednesday 05 May 1920
Resigns command...
Cornishman - Wednesday 10 November 1920
Secretary St Ives Arts Club
Cornishman - Wednesday 17 November 1920
St Ives Council Election...
Cornishman - Wednesday 15 December 1920
St Ives Council - 12 Month term
Cornishman - Wednesday 22 December 1920
1921 Paris Salon "The Freedom of the Seas"
Cornishman - Wednesday 25 May 1921
St Ives election...
Cornishman - Wednesday 02 November 1921
1922 Plymouth
Western Morning News - Wednesday 15 February 1922
Bond Street, London...
Western Morning News - Monday 03 July 1922
Royal Institute...
Western Morning News - Thursday 19 October 1922
1923 Church design, Millwall...
Western Morning News - Thursday 05 April 1923
Plymouth...
Western Morning News - Friday 15 June 1923
Huddersfield...
Cornishman - Wednesday 19 September 1923
1924 STISA Show Day
Cornishman - Wednesday 19 March 1924
Paris Salon
Cornishman - Wednesday 09 July 1924
Derby Gallery...
Cornishman - Wednesday 05 November 1924
1925 STISA Show Day
Cornishman - Wednesday 18 March 1925
The Studio...
Cornishman - Wednesday 27 May 1925
Harris Galleries, Plymouth
Western Morning News - Thursday 28 May 1925
1926 Moved to Salcombe, Devon
Son Michael born
Paris Salon
Cornishman - Wednesday 19 May 1926
1927 Plymouth...
Western Morning News - Monday 01 August 1927
Bradford...
Western Morning News - Thursday 29 September 1927
Elected associate member of the Royal West of England Academy
The Western Daily Press, Tuesday, December 6th, 1927
1928 Designs plan for new auction galleries for Messrs Woolland Son and Manico, Plymouth.
The Western Morning News and Mercury, Tuesday, March 6th, 1928
Elected to full member of the Royal West of England Academy
The Western Daily Press, Tuesday, December 11th, 1928
1929 Liverpool...
Western Morning News - Monday 01 April 1929
Paris Salon
Cornishman - Thursday 25 April 1929
RA
Cornishman - Thursday 02 May 1929
Glasgow...
Western Morning News - Wednesday 22 May 1929
"Preserving Old St Ives - How the artists can help" opening of the summer exhibition, Borlase Smart thanks the Mayor.
The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, May 23rd, 1929
Royal Institute
Western Morning News - Thursday 13 June 1929
Plymouth...
Western Morning News - Saturday 15 June 1929
Derby...
Western Morning News - Thursday 31 October 1929
Member of the Newlyn Society of Artists
Son Brian born
1930 SISA Show Day
Western Morning News - Wednesday 19 March 1930
STISA Spring Show
Cornishman - Thursday 20 March 1930
RA and USA...
Western Morning News - Friday 28 March 1930
STISA Spring Show - Porthmeor Gallery (Borlase Smart thanks Terrick Williams)
Cornishman - Thursday 17 April 1930
NAG Spring Show
Cornishman - Thursday 24 April 1930
Toc H. (Toc H is an international charity and membership movement that emerged from a soldiers' club in Poperinge, Belgium during World War I).
Cornishman - Thursday 08 May 1930
NAG - Venetian works
Cornishman - Thursday 12 June 1930
Grafton Galleries, London
Western Morning News - Friday 13 June 1930
STISA Summer Show
Cornishman - Thursday 26 June 1930
RCPS in Penzance
Cornishman - Thursday 10 July 1930
Speech at the Art Gallery of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Penzance. "What Cornish pictures mean to Cornwall"
The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, August 7th, 1930
NAG Summer Show
Cornishman - Thursday 21 August 1930
"Queen of Beauty", the Carnival Queen of Penzance. Judged by Capt. R Borlase Smart, "if he does not know something about beauty, well, who does?
The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, August 25th, 1930
Solo show
Western Morning News - Friday 03 October 1930
Liverpool
Western Morning News - Tuesday 07 October 1930
Liverpool
Cornishman - Thursday 23 October 1930
Solo exhibition at the Porthmeor Gallery, St Ives. The exhibition is "of an expiremental nature" ahead of an exhibition in London.
The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, October 9th, 1930
NAG Winter Show
Western Morning News - Saturday 22 November 1930
1931 Porthmeor Gallery Spring Show, Borlase Smart to show at British Empire Exhibition in Buenos Ayres...
Western Morning News - Monday 09 February 1931
RI London
Western Morning News - Wednesday 11 February 1931
St Ives Show Day, paintings destined for the RA
Western Morning News - Thursday 19 March 1931
NAG Spring Show
Western Morning News - Friday 20 March 1931
NAG
Western Morning News - Monday 06 April 1931
NAG
Cornishman - Thursday 09 April 1931
Elected full member of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists (Diploma signed by His Majesty the King)
Western Morning News - Saturday 16 May 1931
Summer Show, Porthmeor Gallery
Western Morning News - Saturday 23 May 1931
Harris and Sons Galleries, Plymouth
Western Morning News - Friday 19 June 1931
NAG Summer Show
Western Morning News - Tuesday 07 July 1931
RI London
Cornishman - Thursday 22 October 1931
Derby
Western Morning News - Wednesday 28 October 1931
RWA
Western Morning News - Monday 02 November 1931
STISA Winter Show
Cornishman - Thursday 10 December 1931
1932 Conservative Association
Cornishman - Thursday 04 February 1932
Advertising St Ives" - an offer of active co-operation between St Ives artists and the Publicity Committee of the St Ives Town Council in regard to advertising the town was made by Capt. R Borlase Smart...
The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, February 11th, 1932
Fancy Dress at St Ives
Cornishman - Thursday 25 February 1932
STISA Show Day, paintings destined for the RA
Western Morning News - Thursday 17 March 1932
Portsmouth
Western Morning News - Tuesday 22 March 1932
NAG Spring Show
Western Morning News - Saturday 26 March 1932
Poster
Cornishman - Thursday 28 April 1932
Brighton
Western Morning News - Monday 23 May 1932
STISA Summer Show
Western Morning News - Friday 10 June 1932
Huddersfield
Western Morning News - Thursday 15 September 1932
RI London
Western Morning News - Thursday 13 October 1932
Model Yacht Club...
Western Morning News - Wednesday 26 October 1932
RWA
Western Morning News - Monday 31 October 1932
NAG
Western Morning News - Saturday 19 November 1932
STISA
Western Morning News - Friday 25 November 1932
Porthmeor Gallery Extension
Cornishman - Thursday 01 December 1932
British Exhibition, Bombay and Colombo
Western Morning News - Friday 09 December 1932
1933 STISA
Cornishman - Thursday 02 February 1933
St Ives Show Day, pictures destined for the RA
Cornishman - Thursday 16 March 1933
Barbizon House, London
Cornishman - Thursday 23 March 1933
St Ives Beauty Spot...
Western Morning News - Tuesday 28 March 1933
Crysede Dance
Cornishman - Thursday 13 April 1933
NAG Spring Show
Cornishman - Thursday 20 April 1933
STISA Summer Show
Western Morning News - Thursday 25 May 1933
Father's funeral
Western Morning News - Tuesday 20 June 1933
Lectures for the Workers Educational Association
Cornishman - Thursday 29 June 1933
"Propaganda of the Artist", an article
The Western Morning News and Gazette, Monday, July 3rd, 1933
NAG Summer Show
Western Morning News - Saturday 08 July 1933
St Ives Election
Cornishman - Thursday 09 November 1933
RI London
Western Morning News - Saturday 18 November 1933
STISA Winter Show
Cornishman - Thursday 23 November 1933
NAG Winter Show
Cornishman - Thursday 23 November 1933
Book published...
Western Morning News - Thursday 30 November 1933
St Ives Fashion - Crysede
Western Morning News - Friday 15 December 1933
1934 Oldham
Western Morning News - Tuesday 16 January 1934
New Burlington Galleries, London
Western Morning News - Saturday 17 February 1934
Preserving St Ives - the danger of demolition...
Western Morning News - Tuesday 03 April 1934
STISA Spring Show, Porthmeor Gallery
Western Morning News - Saturday 10 March 1934
Memorial Exhibition, Alfred Hartley
Cornishman - Thursday 29 March 1934
NAG Spring Show
Cornishman - Thursday 26 April 1934
RA
Cornishman - Thursday 03 May 1934
RA
Cornishman - Thursday 10 May 1934
NAG
Western Morning News - Tuesday 19 June 1934
St Ives Slum Plans
Western Morning News - Friday 17 August 1934
Mary McCrossan
Cornishman - Thursday 08 November 1934
1935 STISA Spring Show
Cornishman - Thursday 14 March 1935
NAG Spring Show
Cornishman - Thursday 18 April 1935
Paris
Western Morning News - Tuesday 23 April 1935
STISA Ball
Cornishman - Thursday 02 May 1935
RA
Cornishman - Thursday 09 May 1935
Harris and Sons Galleries, Plymouth. Article by Capt. R Borlase Smart
Western Morning News - Friday 21 June 1935
NAG Summer Show
Cornishman - Thursday 11 July 1935
STISA
Cornishman - Thursday 18 July 1935
Plymouth, Harris andSons Galleries
Western Morning News - Monday 12 August 1935
RI
Western Morning News - Friday 25 October 1935
Derby
Western Morning News - Tuesday 29 October 1935
NAG Winter Show
Cornishman - Thursday 14 November 1935
STISA Winter Show, Porthmeor Gallery
Western Morning News - Friday 15 November 1935
1936 Burlington Galleries, London
Western Morning News - Tuesday 18 February 1936
RA
Western Morning News - Friday 20 March 1936
Hastings
Western Morning News - Thursday 26 March 1936
NAG Spring Show
Cornishman - Thursday 09 April 1936
RA
Cornishman - Thursday 07 May 1936
Eastbourne
Western Morning News - Tuesday 23 June 1936
Harris and Sons Galleries, Plymouth (photo)
Western Morning News - Friday 26 June 1936
STISA Autumn Exhibition
Cornishman - Thursday 17 September 1936
Hereford
Western Morning News - Monday 28 September 1936
St Ives Bowling Club
Cornishman - Thursday 08 October 1936
RWA
Western Morning News - Monday 02 November 1936
Modern Art at Cheltenham...
Gloucestershire Echo - Tuesday 17 November 1936
Western Morning News - Tuesday 17 November 1936
Holmans, Calendar
Western Morning News - Monday 28 December 1936
GWR Poster
Cornishman - Thursday 31 December 1936
1937 STISA Winter Show
Cornishman - Thursday 21 January 1937
Record numbers...
Western Morning News - Saturday 30 January 1937
STISA success...
Western Morning News - Tuesday 02 February 1937
St Ives Show Day, paintings destined for the RA
Western Morning News - Friday 19 March 1937
STISA Spring Show, Porthmeor Gallery
Cornishman - Thursday 15 April 1937
Bath
Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Saturday 12 June 1937
Renaissance Galleries, London
Western Morning News - Thursday 22 July 1937
Burlington Galleries, London (Churchill)
Western Morning News - Wednesday 28 July 1937
STISA, Bishop of Truro
Cornishman - Thursday 07 October 1937
RI London
Western Morning News - Friday 15 October 1937
RWA
Western Morning News - Monday 01 November 1937
NAG
Cornishman - Thursday 18 November 1937
1938 The St Ives Wreck - story told at inquest - the question of Godrevy light. Borlase Smart was a member of the jury at the inquest into the St Ives lifeboat disaster and raised a protest against the inadequate light at Godrevy.
The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, February 3rd, 1938
STISA Spring Show "Bigger and Better than Ever" by Capt. R Borlase Smart
Western Morning News - Thursday 07 April 1938
RA
St Ives School of Painting
The St Ives School of Painting opened in April 1938. It was the fulfilment of a vow made by two young officers serving in WWI over twenty years earlier - a promise that if they survived the horrors of the Western Front they would one day live and paint in St Ives. Those officers were Borlase Smart and Leonard Fuller.
Leonard Fuller, by then married to Marjorie Mostyn, whom he had met at the Royal Academy Schools, returned to the Home Counties after the war and became Drawing Master at Dulwich College. In 1938 Borlase Smart finally persuaded Fuller to join him in Cornwall and open the St Ives School of Painting.
Cornishman - Thursday 05 May 1938
NAG Summer Show
Cornishman - Thursday 14 July 1938
Truro "Shout about Art"
Cornishman - Thursday 22 September 1938
STISA Autumn Show, Porthmeor Gallery
Western Morning News - Friday 30 September 1938
RI London
Western Morning News - Thursday 13 October 1938
Cornish Artists at Bristol Academy". Borlase Smart exhibits "August Moon - St Ives".
The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, November 3rd, 1938
RWA
Cornishman - Thursday 03 November 1938
NAG
Western Morning News - Monday 14 November 1938
Portsmouth
Western Morning News - Saturday 03 December 1938
1939 STISA Show Day
Cornishman - Thursday 23 March 1939
Proposed Society of Marine Artists
Western Morning News - Thursday 30 March 1939
Spring Show, Porthmeor Gallery
Cornishman - Thursday 13 April 1939
Artists and Charity...
Cornishman - Thursday 01 June 1939
1st Exhibition of the newly reformed Society of Marine Artists
Western Morning News - Tuesday 27 June 1939
1939 STISA/Forbes
Western Morning News - Friday 14 July
NAG Summer Show
Cornishman - Thursday 13 July 1939
Bowling Club
Cornishman - Thursday 17 August 1939
STISA
Western Morning News - Friday 06 October 1939
1940 The War Effort, saving paper...
Western Morning News - Wednesday 03 January 1940
RA, Exhibition for War Charities...
Western Morning News - Saturday 06 January 1940
RA (United Artists)
Cornishman - Thursday 11 January 1940
STISA Winter Show
Cornishman - Thursday 18 January 1940
STISA Annual Meeting
Cornishman - Thursday 08 February 1940
STISA Show Day
Cornishman - Thursday 14 March 1940
Society of Marine Painters, London
Western Morning News - Tuesday 23 April 1940
St Ives Salvage Scheme
Cornishman - Thursday 02 May 1940
"Up to her eyes in paper" Mrs Borlase Smart manages St Ives salvage...
The Western Morning News, Friday, May 24th, 1940
Plymouth Exhibition by St Ives Artists - "Colour Contrast Daringly Used"
The Western Morning News, Friday, May 31st, 1940
STISA Summer Show
Cornishman - Thursday 11 July 1940
STISA Autumn Show
Cornishman - Thursday 17 October 1940
1941 Artists in the War - a letter to the Eaditor...
Western Morning News - Friday 07 March 1941
STISA Summer Show
Cornishman - Thursday 10 July 1941
St Ives Scouts, Borlase Smart becomes District Commissioner
Western Morning News - Tuesday 30 September 1941
STISA Autumn Show
Cornishman - Thursday 16 October 1941
1942 United Artists Exhibition, London
Western Morning News - Tuesday 20 January 1942
STISA Winter Show
Western Morning News - Monday 26 January 1942
STISA Annual Report
Western Morning News - Tuesday 03 February 1942
STISA Spring Show
Western Morning News - Saturday 14 March 1942
STISA Summer Show
Western Morning News - Monday 03 August 1942
"Lightning Sketches" for St Ives Children
Western Morning News - Thursday 31 December 1942
STISA Autumn Show
Cornishman - Thursday 31 December 1942
1943 United Artists Exhibition, London
Western Morning News - Tuesday 05 January 1943
STISA Winter Show - Clever Works in Wartime...
Cornishman - Thursday 14 January 1943
STISA Annual Meeting
Cornishman - Thursday 04 February 1943
STISA
The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, February 4th, 1943
STISA Show Day
Western Morning News - Saturday 06 March 1943
STISA Spring Show - trouble with sand...
The Western Morning News, Monday, April 12th, 1943
RA
Western Morning News - Tuesday 04 May 1943
STISA Summer Show
Western Morning News - Monday 12 July 1943
French Art at St Ives...
Cornishman - Thursday 02 September 1943
Society of Marine Artists, London
Western Morning News - Tuesday 21 September 1943
1944 STISA Winter Show
Western Morning News - Monday 17 January 1944
STISA Show Day
Western Morning News - Friday 03 March 1944
NAG Spring Show
Western Morning News - Monday 27 March 1944
STISA Spring Show
Western Morning News - Monday 03 April 1944
RA
Cornishman - Thursday 04 May 1944
Pictures by Children, an exhibition...
Western Morning News - Wednesday 07 June 1944
Hidden Talent - A Remarkable Exhibition at St Ives. Borlase Smart organises an exhibition of amateur art at the Guildhall, St Ives, to encourage a communal art development upon the people of our town and to foster the art of expressionism of our children....
The Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph, Thursday, June 8th, 1944
STISA Summer Exhibition - the problem of art after the war...
Western Morning News - Monday 10 July 1944
Plymouth Art Gallery
Western Morning News - Wednesday 06 September 1944
STISA Autumn Show - the 21st wartime show...
Cornishman - Thursday 12 October 1944
Plymouth Art Gallery
Western Morning News - Monday 16 October 1944
Treloyhan Manor - St Ives - Suggestion for Art Gallery.
The Western Morning News, Saturday, November 11th, 1944
St Ives Need Museum and Art Gallery - a letter to the editor...
Western Morning News - Saturday 25 November 1944
RWS at St Ives...
Cornishman - Thursday 30 November 1944
St Ives "Invasion", a letter to the editor...
Western Morning News - Saturday 09 December 1944
Art Lecture at St Ives...
Cornishman - Thursday 28 December 1944
1945 STISA Annual Report, a lively affair...
Cornishman - Thursday 08 February 1945
Critics at St Ives - workers appear on show day. Borlase Smart breaks with tradition and changes the St Ives show day from midweek to Saturday "so the working man can visit". A report of the show mentions that "suntanned fishermen and uncultured labourers" were among the visitors...
The Western Morning News, Monday, March 5th, 1945
STISA Show Day
Cornishman - Thursday 08 March 1945
NAG Spring Show
Cornishman - Thursday 29 March 1945
STISA Spring Show - Soldier's advice to painters...
Cornishman - Thursday 19 April 1945
Artists Have New Gallery - St Ives Exhibition - the work shown is outstanding. STISA have taken over new premises at the Mariners' Church...
The Western Morning News, Saturday, July 28th, 1945
STISA at Mariners' Church - the first exhibition...
Cornishman - Thursday 02 August 1945
Plymouth Art Gallery
Western Morning News - Friday 07 September 1945
STISA Autumn Show
Western Morning News - Monday 15 October 1945
Snobbery in Art...
Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Saturday 03 November 1945
"Seeing Things", a talk...
Cornishman - Thursday 13 December 1945
Borlase Smart This is an inewmedia production