Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists
2008Prakash, A.K.
409 pages (color)
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1924 Louiseville, Quebec, Canada - 2001 Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Known for: Abstract painting, stained-glass artist.
A prominent contemporary Canadian artist in the mid to late 20th Century, Marcelle Ferron was based in Quebec, but spent thirteen years in France, beginning 1953. There she did large-scale abstract... Read full biography
A prominent contemporary Canadian artist in the mid to late 20th Century, Marcelle Ferron was based in Quebec, but spent thirteen years in France, beginning 1953. There she did large-scale abstract painting and became skilled in stained glass, which became her signature work. The Champ-de-Mars... Read full biography
A prominent contemporary Canadian artist in the mid to late 20th Century, Marcelle Ferron was based in Quebec, but spent thirteen years in France, beginning 1953. There she did large-scale abstract painting and became skilled in stained glass, which became her signature work. The Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal has a large Ferron stained-glass window with bold geometric design and color. Other venues are the Place du Porage in Gatineau, Quebec, and the Granby, Quebec courthouse. Of the... Read full biography
A prominent contemporary Canadian artist in the mid to late 20th Century, Marcelle Ferron was based in Quebec, but spent thirteen years in France, beginning 1953. There she did large-scale abstract painting and became skilled in stained glass, which became her signature work. The Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal has a large Ferron stained-glass window with bold geometric design and color. Other venues are the Place du Porage in Gatineau, Quebec, and the Granby, Quebec courthouse. Of the years she spent in France, it is written that the experience transformed her style, that it. "opened up her work. loosened her previously tense and somewhat forced gestures. Her canvases became larger, the brush-work less crowded and more dynamic.... Read full biography
A prominent contemporary Canadian artist in the mid to late 20th Century, Marcelle Ferron was based in Quebec, but spent thirteen years in France, beginning 1953. There she did large-scale abstract painting and became skilled in stained glass, which became her signature work. The Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal has a large Ferron stained-glass window with bold geometric design and color. Other venues are the Place du Porage in Gatineau, Quebec, and the Granby, Quebec courthouse. Of the years she spent in France, it is written that the experience transformed her style, that it. "opened up her work. loosened her previously tense and somewhat forced gestures. Her canvases became larger, the brush-work less crowded and more dynamic. Though now laden with heavy areas of impasto, her work began to breathe. it was 'daybreak after... Read full biography
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Egregore: A History of the Montreal Automatist Movement
1998Ellenwood, Ray357 pages (color)Stealing the Show: Seven Women Artists in Canadian Public Art
1994Lambton, Gunda240 pagesRobert Ayre: The Critic and the Collection
1992Paikowsky, Sandra and Lois Valliant59 pages (color)By A Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women
1992Tippett, Maria226 pages (color)Total Refusal (Refus Global): The Complete 1948 Manifesto of the Montreal Automatists
1991Borduas, Paul; Claude Gauvreau, Bruno Cornier, et all119 pagesMontreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing417 pagesMontreal and Monument as an Art
1985Leclerc, Suzanne and Christian Ekemberg126 pages (color)Artists, Builders and Dreamers-50 Years at the Banff School
1982Leighton, David; Peggy Leighton, McClelland, Stewart160 pagesCanadian Art in Britain: Contemporary Works from Collections in Britain
1982Shepherd, Michael56 pages (color)Selections from the Westburne Collection (Edmonton Art Gallery)
1982Wilkin, Karen48 pages (color)Forum 76 (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Rosshandler, Leo and Germain Lefebvre95 pagesFrom Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada Agnes Etherington Art Centre
1975
(Exhibition catalog)Farr, Dorothy; Natalie Luckyj81 pagesCanadian Art Today
1970Townsend, William114 pages (color)Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy254 pages (color)Modern Painting in French Canada
1967Viau, Guy93 pages