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When Canadian Painters Were Established
Lilias Torrance Newton born on November 3, 1896 in Lachine, Montreal and died on January 10, 1980. She started painting in 1908 and studied in London, Paris and Montreal at the Art Association. She traveled to England to assist with the Red Cross during World War I, and while there, she trained alongside modernist Alfred Wolmark. She established herself as a successful portrait painter after returning to Canada. Many boardrooms and universities display her portraits. The paintings that she is mainly known for is Nonnie, Self-portrait, and Anna. She also shared a studio with Mabel May at Beaver Hall Hill where she taught painting workshops as a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group in 1920. She first visited Paris in 1923 to study with Alexandre Jacovleff and then went back during the 1923, 1929, and 1953. Her works stand out for its vibrant colour, strong composition, and keen insight.
Nonnie 1920
Prudence Heward born on July 2,1896 in Montreal and died on March 19,1947 in Los Angeles, California. Heward started painting in 1908 and studied at the Art Association of Montreal and in fact with Lilias Torrance Newton aswell as many others. Heward focused on creating portraits of women. She is well-known for her sculptural shapes, distinctly feminine topics, and expressive colour palettes. Her experience with contemporary European art had an impact on her figurative paintings. Early in the 1920s, Heward started to have career success as an artist. In a contest for the Reford Painting Prize at the AAM in 1922, she finished in second place. In 1924, while enrolled in the advanced level of the AAM, she also earned the Reford Prize and the Women's Art Society Prize for painting. Some of the paintings that she is known for is Autumn Hills, The Farmer’s Daughter, and the Fruit in the Grass.
Autumn 1941
Les Masques 1973
Jean-Paul Lemieux born 18 November 1904 in Québec City and died 7 November 1990 in Montréal. He started painting in 1917 and enrolled in the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in the fall of 1926 and started taking Holgate's classes there. Lemieux met fellow artist Paul-Émile Borduas while attending this institution, which promoted a classical, anti-Modernist curriculum that was centred on conventional skills like drawing, figurative painting, and sculpture. He later went on to become one of the authors of the manifesto Refus global and a forerunner of abstract painting in Canada. His creative world is sometimes categorized as one of flat, lifeless, and limitless northern landscapes, yet this obsession was only one aspect of his varied body of work. After receiving his diploma in 1934, Lemieux was appointed as an assistant instructor of drawing and design at his alma mater, the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. A few of the paintings he is known for is Les Masques, L’Orpheline, and Evening Visitor.
Paul Vanier Beaulieu born on March 24, 1910 and died on April 20 1996.
Around the age of 10, Beaulieu began studying the arts by browsing illustrated art books in his father's studio-library. To make his own representations of his favourite comic book characters, he would take his father's paints and brushes. He started to go outside and paint landscapes there and then after being encouraged by his father. His daily life began to place an ever-increasing focus on the attraction of colorful images, shapes, and forms, and above all the pleasure of capturing them and transferring them onto a piece of paper or the lid of a cigar box. At the age of seventeen, Beaulieu enrolled in the Montreal School of Fine Arts in September 1927 with the easy consent of his parents. He set to work and passionately immersed himself in the studies of illustration, design, and painting. Some of the art pieces he is known for is Nature morte aux fruits, Two portraits and Espagne.
Nature morte aux fruits 1955
Landing 1965
Jean-Paul Riopelle born on October 7, 1923 in Montreal and died on March 12, 2002 in Saint Antoine de L'Isle aux Grues. When he was thirteen years old, his parents encouraged him to enroll in the drawing and painting lessons in response to his developing interest in art. Riopelle was enrolled at the École polytechnique de Montréal in 1941 to study architecture and engineering because his parents wanted him to focus on a career that would be more financially rewarding than painting. One of Canada's most important painters of the 20th century is Jean Paul Riopelle. He enrolled at the École du meuble in Montreal's art department in 1943. A lot of his work is either in watercolour or oil painting.
In order to paint in an abstract style, which attracted his curiosity, he advised his students to set aside their expectations and approach their paintings in a fresh way. Some paintings he is known for is Landing, PAVANE, and Forestine.
Maud Lewis born on March 7, 1903 in Yarmouth and died on July 30 1970 in Digby. Lewis was born with congenital conditions that included extremely concave chins, steeply sloping shoulders, and a spine curvature. Maud Lewis had been creating and selling cards since she was a teenager, both in stores and door to door. She started painting in 1939 and produced cards, paintings, and commissions during the 1940s, such as a set of shutters for an American family with a summer house nearby. Following World War II, visitors were able to pause and view samples of Lewis's artwork; if they choose to purchase one, they would also receive a sweet pea boutonniere from Everett's garden. She began by painting on scallop shells, which were common on the beaches around Digby. These painted shells used as ashtrays and plates and were decorated with cats, flowers, and butterflies. Two paintings that she is famous for is Three Black Cats and Hauling Logs.
Hauling Logs 1962
Cerce nacarat 1959
Marcelle Ferron born 29 January 1924 in Louiseville and died 18 November 2001 in Montreal.In 1985, she was invested as a Knight in the National Order of Québec, and in 2000, she was elevated to Grand Officer status. She was the sibling of the authors Madeleine and Jacques Ferron. She developed a creative career that included significant stained glass public art pieces. Marcelle Ferron joined Les Automatistes after completing her education at the École du Meuble in Montreal and the École des beaux-arts in Quebec City. She was one of the association's Refus Global polemic manifesto's seven female supporters in 1948. Every significant Automatiste show included her figurative-free paintings. The impact of Ferron's paintings increased with time. The canvas was dominated by vibrant colours and bigger, flowing figures. Ferron frequently used a palette knife rather than a brush to apply paint to the canvas thickly, intensely, and directly from the tube. One painting that she is famous for is Cerce nacarat.
Marcel Barbeau born 18 February 1925 in Montréal and died 2 January 2016 in Montréal. He started painting in 1951 and has been making art for 65 years. Numerous exhibitions of Marcel Barbeau's work have taken place in Canada, the United States, and Europe. A retrospective exhibition of his work took place at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1969. He made a comeback to the free-form, all-over surface action he had previously preferred in the late 1970s. In 1987, influenced by his sculpture and collages, his painting underwent another metamorphosis and reverted to geometric shapes with stark contrasts in colour. He has earned several honours, including the Zack Award from the Royal Canadian Academy in 1964, the Gold Medal for Painting at the Jeux de la Francophonie in 1994, and the Governor-Award General's for Visual and Media Arts in 2013. He produced several paintings utilizing methods like the palette knife and oil paints. He is a famous painter, sculptor and filmmaker known for the paintings by the name Swirling Retina, Brise d’Automne.
Swirling Retina 1967
Jeff Wall born 29 September 1946 in Vancouver started painting in 1960. In Vancouver, Jeff Wall was raised. His parents supported his passion in the arts, and by the age of 14, he was painting in the backyard shed. Early advancements in painting, such the work of American abstract painter Jackson Pollock, whose paintings he encountered at the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, served as inspiration for him. He gave up painting and started experimenting with abstract art in the form of images with text and film while studying art history at UBC. The most well-known of a group of Vancouver artists since the late 1960s, Jeff Wall is known for his large-scale, backlit photo-transparency, his theoretical writing, and his teaching. Before creating his first back-lit photo-transparency in 1977, Jeff Wall did not create any more art. The staged images frequently make references to issues in representational philosophy and art history. Some of his paintings are The Destroyed Room, Tattoos and Shadows, Picture for Women.
The Destroyed Room 1978
Rob Gonsalves born on July 10, 1959, Toronto and died on June 14, 2017. He was interested in paintings in 1990 and after earning his degree in architecture from Ryerson University, Rob Gonsalves worked in the industry for a while before beginning his career as an internationally renowned painter. Rob Gonsalves created works of art that appealed to both children's joyous and wonderful imaginations as well as to us grownups who can still access our inner child and swing till our shoes are in the sky. He was influenced by the buildings in Toronto and New York, the stars at night, and the untamed nature of rock, trees, and lakes in Eastern Ontario, where he finally made his home in 2001. Gonsalves has had multiple exhibitions of his work around the country, and his limited edition prints and paintings may be found in a wide range of individual and corporate collections, including those of a US Senator, embassies, and various businesses. Two of his most famous paintings are Water Dancers and Carved in Stone.
Carved in Stone