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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About Marcelle Ferron: Books
Books & Publications (16)
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Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists
2008
Prakash, A.K.
409 pages (color)
Egregore: A History of the Montreal Automatist Movement
1998
Ellenwood, Ray
357 pages (color)
Stealing the Show: Seven Women Artists in Canadian Public Art
1994
Lambton, Gunda
240 pages
Robert Ayre: The Critic and the Collection
1992
Paikowsky, Sandra and Lois Valliant
59 pages (color)
By A Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women
1992
Tippett, Maria
226 pages (color)
Total Refusal (Refus Global): The Complete 1948 Manifesto of the Montreal Automatists
1991
Borduas, Paul; Claude Gauvreau, Bruno Cornier, et all
119 pages
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
Montreal and Monument as an Art
1985
Leclerc, Suzanne and Christian Ekemberg
126 pages (color)
Artists, Builders and Dreamers-50 Years at the Banff School
1982
Leighton, David; Peggy Leighton, McClelland, Stewart
160 pages
Canadian Art in Britain: Contemporary Works from Collections in Britain
1982
Shepherd, Michael
56 pages (color)
Selections from the Westburne Collection (Edmonton Art Gallery)
1982
Wilkin, Karen
48 pages (color)
Forum 76 (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Rosshandler, Leo and Germain Lefebvre
95 pages
From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Exhibition catalog)