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Agnes Dube

Born: Active mid 20th century.

Agnes Dube. Wood carver. Sculptor. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. Active 1940’s – early 1950’s.

Agnes Dube carved in the ‘flat plane’ tradition of St-Jean-Port-Joli. Active 1940’s-1950’s, she carved and painted people – usually quite small carvings – and in the traditional costume and scenes of Quebec. She always painted her carvings and usually signed ‘Agnes Dube’ but occasionally simply ‘Dube’. Some of the works that are signed with the last name only may possibly have been carved by Leandre Dube who I believe is a family member.

Agnes Dube. A carved and painted Quebec couple:

Agnes Dube. Carved and painted Quebec Couple.

Agnes Dube. Her mark in script:

Agnes Dube. Her mark in script.

Location: Quebec

Rob Oppenhaur

Born: ?

Rob Oppenhaur. Sculptor. Athens, Ontario. Active late 20th century.

Rob Oppenhaur is a maker of painted figures and assembly’s using ‘as found’ and recycled materials.

Location: Ontario

Ian Fancey

Born: 1940

Ian Fancey. Sculptor. Springhill (originally Pugwash), Nova Scotia. Active from 1994.

Ian Fancy carves his impressions of the world in Eastern White Pine and adds color; brilliant Maritime primary color. He plays with words and uses that play in his work. He has given a whole new look to the simple phrase: “A School of Fish”. (It was a carving of a dozen young Catfish at their desks with a large Catfish teacher pointing to words on the Blackboard.) Mr. Fancey’s work appears in Public and private collections around the world.

Location: Nova Scotia

Wilfrid Gagnon

Born: Active 1930s.

Wilfrid Gagnon. Sculptor. Charlevoix County, Quebec. Active 1930’s.

Wilfrid Gagnon was a carver of birds and animals. He was cited in Baker’s “Images of Charlevoix”.

Ref: Victoria baker. Images of Charlevoix 1784-1950. Montreal: Museum of Fine Arts. 1981.

Ref:Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).

Location: Quebec

Art Gallant

Born: Active mid 20th century. | Died: 1980

Art Gallant. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Dieppe, New Brunswick. Active mid 20th century.

Art gallant was a naive sculptor. He used animal and people in his carvings carvings to make social and sometimes political observations. Art Gallant usually told a story with his carvings and he often put it into word on the sculpture. His title and his comments are always in French and English. His sculptures were occasionally colored and always heavily varnished and signed. He worked with Cedar and Pine wood and occasionally ‘as found’ materials. Art Gallant is widely collected and his works have become rare.

Art Gallant has been collected by the CCFCS and has been cited by numerous writers. (See notes below.)

A Carving of a Deer by Art Gallant. With his words.: