About Ozias Leduc

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    Ozias Leduc LL.D, ARCA (1864 - 1955)

    "Leduc is the unique tangible link that we have with the first century of art history in Canada. Without him, there would be no continuity." (1)

    "All of Leduc's work, like his life itself, exists outside time. He is an anachronism." (2)

    "The most astonishing and most mystical of Canadian Painters," (3)

    A painter, muralist, draftsman, illustrator, church decorator, and poet, Ozias Leduc was born in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, a town about 20 miles east of Montreal, and died in St. Hyacinthe a town about 10 miles east of Mont-Saint-Hilaire. Though he spent most of his life in the small town of his birth decorating churches and easel painting for recreation, posthumously, he is c...

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