Eldred Simmons. Scuptor. Decoy maker. Prince Edward Island. Active mid 20th century.
Marie-Anne Simard
Born: 1920 | Died: 1952
Marie-Anne Simard. Painter. Petite-Riviere-Saint-Francois, Charlevoix County, Quebec. Active 1940’s.
Marie-Anne Simard (and her sister Berthe) in the 1930’s were encouraged by Jori Smith and Jean Palardy to paint. She was self-taught and possessed a very fine sense of colour and made naive paintings of her life and family in Charlevois County. She was among the Charlevoix artists featured in the book on Charlevoix painters: Peindre un Pays Where her story is told. She was also in the film: Paintres folklorique de Charlevoix, ( ‘Folk Painters of Charlevoix’ ) made by Jean Palardy.
Marie-Anne Simard contracted Tuberculosis and died in 1952.
Ref: http://www.museedecharlevoix.qc.ca/en/history-heritage/folk-art
Ref: Richard Dubé et François Tremblay, Peindre un pays: Charlevoix et ses peintres populaires,
Laprairie: Éditions Broquet, 1989.
Simard, Joseph-Elie
Born: 1917
Joseph-Elie Simard. Sculptor. Wood carver. Grande-Baie, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.
Joseph-Elie Simard made naive painted carvings of people, birds, fish and animals. He also made relief carvings. He was not known to sign his work. Simard was first mentioned in Les Patenteux du Quebec.
(Ref: Les Patenteux du Qubec. Louise de Grosbois, Raymonde Lamothe and Lise Nantel, Les Editions Parti Pris, Montreal, 1978.)
Percy Shupe
Born: 1877 | Died: 1962
Percy Shupe. Sculptor. Decoy carver. Western Shore, Nova Scotia. Active mid-20th century.
Robert Shaw
Born: Active 1930's.
Robert Shaw. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Odessa, Ontario. Active 1930’s.
Robert Shaw was a sculptor of naive painted carvings of birds.
Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
