| Ina D. D. Uhthoff | |
| Birth Name: | Ina Campbell |
| Birth Date: | 1889 |
| Birth Place: | Kirn, Argyll, Scotland |
| Death Place: | Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Education: | Glasgow School of Art |
| Field: | Painter |
Ina D .D. Uhthoff (née Campbell) (1889 - 1971) was a Scots-Canadian painter. A contemporary and friend[1] of Emily Carr, Uhthoff was known for establishing her own art school; the Victoria School of Art, writing columns for the Daily Colonist newspaper, and exhibiting her own art.[2] [3]
Uhthoff was born in 1889 in Kirn, Argyll, Scotland.[4] She grew up in Glasgow, graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 1912.[2] Following her graduation she exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy.[3]
In 1913 Uhthoff traveled to the Kootenays in British Columbia to visit friends. While there she met the homesteader, Edward Joseph (Ted) Uhthoff.[3] With the outbreak of World War I Uhthoff returned to Glasgow, where she taught elementary school.[3]
In 1919 Ina and Ted were married,[5] returned to British Columbia, and started a family.[3]
In 1926 Uhthoff relocated to Victoria with her two children.[4] There she continued her teaching career, providing private lessons, teaching at public and private schools, and a correspondence course. She called her private studio the Victoria School of Art which operated from 1926 to 1942.[3] She was forced to close the school at the beginning of World War II.[2]
In the late 1920s she worked with Emily Carr to bring Mark Tobey from Seattle, Washington to teach a class.[2]
In 1934, her work appeared in the Vancouver Art Gallery's 3rd. Annual B.C Artists exhibit (Alpine Meadows, Windswept Tree) alongside Group Of Seven artist Fred Varley.[6]
In 1945 Uhthoff began running a small gallery called the Little Centre, a precursor to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.[2] She served on the board of directors into the 1960s.[2]
Concurrent with her teaching career, Uhthoff exhibited her own work at the British Columbia Society of Artists, and at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.[4]
Uhthoff died in 1971 in Carleton Place, Ontario[2]
In 1972 the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria held a memorial exhibition of her work.[7]
Her work is currently held in the Burnaby Art Gallery,[8] Art Gallery of Greater Victoria[9] and elsewhere.
In 2017 her work was included in the exhibition, The Ornament of a House: Fifty Years of Collecting at the Burnaby Art Gallery.[10]
Web site: Johnson-Dean . Christina . The Life and Art of Ina D D. Uhthoff . Mother Tongue Pub. Co. Ltd, 2012 . 29 August 2023.