Marcelle Ferron
Marcelle Ferron | |
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Died | November 19, 2001 | (aged 77)
Resting place | Mount Royal Cemetery |
Nationality | Canadian |
Known for | stained glass, painting |
Movement | Automatistes |
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Marcelle Ferron, GOQ RCA (January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001), a Canadian Québécoise painter and stained glass artist, was a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene, associated with the Automatistes.[1]
Life and work[]
Ferron was born in Louiseville, Quebec on January 29, 1924. Her brother Jacques Ferron and her sister Madeleine Ferron were both writers. She studied at the École des beaux-arts de Québec before dropping out, unsatisfied with the way the school's instructors addressed modern art.[2]
Ferron was an early member of Paul-Émile Borduas's Automatistes art movement. She signed the manifesto Refus global, a watershed event in the Quebec cultural scene, in 1948.[3]
In 1953, she moved to Paris, where she worked for 13 years in drawing and painting and was introduced to the art of stained glass, for which she would become best known.[4]
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One of her stained-glass windows is at Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal, Quebec. It was one of the first non-figurative works to be installed in the metro, in defiance of the didactic style present in other works of the period, and signalled a major shift in public art in Montreal between the policies of then art director Robert Lapalme and future art director and fellow automatiste Jean-Paul Mousseau. Other examples of her works can be seen at Vendôme metro station, Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine, and the ICAO headquarters, in Montreal; the Place du Portage in Gatineau, Quebec; and the Granby, Quebec courthouse.
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In 1983, she was awarded the Paul-Émile-Borduas prize for the visual arts by the government of Quebec.[5] In 1985, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec and was promoted to Grand Officer in 2000. She was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[6]
She died in Montreal.
A nursing home in Brossard, Quebec, the , is named after her.[7] On 7 September 2019, Google honoured Ferron with a “google doodle” to mark the anniversary of the unveiling of her installation in Montreal's Vendôme station.[8]
References[]
- ^ Farr, Dorothy; Luckyj, Natalie (1975). From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre. pp. 60–61.
- ^ "Marcelle Ferron". Library and Archives Canada. October 2, 2000. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ Davis, Ann (May 22, 2008). "Marcelle Ferron". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ Lambton, Gunda. Stealing the show : seven women artists in Canadian public art. p. 17. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ "Prix du Quebec". Archived from the original on 2003-10-20. Retrieved 2003-09-29.
- ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on March 23, 2019. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
- ^ "Centre d'accueil Marcelle-Ferron". www.chsldmarcelleferron.com. Archived from the original on 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Celebrating Marcelle Ferron". www.google.com. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
External links[]
- Marcelle Ferron at Canadian Art Group
- Marcelle Ferron - Montreal by Metro
- Stealing the show : seven women artists in Canadian public art
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- 1924 births
- 2001 deaths
- Canadian stained glass artists and manufacturers
- Canadian women painters
- French Quebecers
- Grand Officers of the National Order of Quebec
- Montreal Metro artists
- People from Louiseville
- Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
- 20th-century Canadian painters
- 20th-century Canadian women artists
- Burials at Mount Royal Cemetery
- Université Laval faculty