Canadian Folk Art and Outsider Art
John Elliot. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Cobourg, Ontario. Active mid 20th century.
John Elliot made models of ships and farm equipment including tractors and the equipment used with them. He was cited by the Canadian Centre for Folklore Studies.
Ref: Canadian Centre for Folklore Studies. Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Clyde Edwards. Sculptor. Decoy carver. Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia. Active mid 20th century.
Clyde Edwards was a decoy carver. His work included ducks, plovers and also seagulls.
Ref: Richard Field. Spirit of Nova Scotia. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Halifax. 1985.
Ref: Guyette, Decoys of Maritime Canada.(1983).
Ref: Gerald Ferguson, Decoy carvers of Nova Scotia. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. 1984.
Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Charles Edenshaw. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Active late 19th – early 20th century.
Charles (Charlie) Edenshaw was a Haida Chief. His art was based on Haida traditions and stories. He worked with different media in his sculpture; gold, silver, argillite, ivory and wood are some. He made decorated totems, boxes and other traditional works. Marius Barbeau recounts his life* and he is cited by many galleries and museums.
Ref: Nancy Patterson. Canadian Native Art. Toronto, Collier-McMillan. 1973.
Ref: Marius Barbeau, Haida Carvers in Argillite. Ottawa, National Museum of Canada. 1957.
Ref: Lerner. and Williamson, Art and Architecture in Canada. A Bibliography …to 1981. University of Totonto Press. 1991.
Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999)
A. Durangeau. Sculptor. La Prairie, Quebec. Active 20th century.
A. Durangeau is known for having made a naive weather vane. The artist was cited in ‘From the Heart’ (Pl. 72.1983).
Ref: The Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies. From The Heart: Folk Art in Canada. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto. 1983.
Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Jean-Claude Dupont. Painter. Illustrator. Sainte-Foy, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.
Jean-Claude Dupont is a self-taught naive artist. He is also an ethnologist and author in his field. He is a collector of Quebec legends and traditions and illustrates them with his own paintings.
An example of his work:
Jean-Claude Dupont. Legende.
From the Exhibition: Exploring Francophone and Native oral traditions in North America:
“During his field studies throughout French-speaking North America, Jean-Claude Dupont collected hundreds of legends, recording them not only in compilations and other specialized publications, but also in his naïve paintings.” The exhibition was produced in partnership with the Musée québécois de culture populaire in Trois-Rivières.
Web Site: http://www.pacmusee.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/discovering-legends-with-jean-claude-dupont
Ref: Jean-Claude Dupont, Jacques Mathieu. Heritage de la Francophonie Canadienne, University of Laval Press. 1986.
Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Ref: G. Boulizon, Y. Daigle and A-M. Bost, Ces Peintres du Quebec et de L’Acadie. Ville Saint-Laurent.Editions du Trecarre. (1989).
