Canadian Folk Art and Outsider Art
Reg Bloom. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Kingston, Ontario. Active mid 20th century.
Reg Bloom was a carver of decoys. He also made painted ornamental bird carvings.
Ref: Bernie Gates. Ontario Decoys. The UpperCanadian. 1982.
Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999)
Eugene Bernard. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Saint-Andre-Avellin, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.
Eugene Bernard was known for his naive wood carvings and also for making crucifixion carvings in bottles. A popular theme in Quebec in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ref: Kobayashi/Bird, A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists (1985)
Ref: An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art. Blake McKendry, Kingston, Ontario. 1999.
Walter Belafontaine. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Chezzetcooke, Nova Scotia. Active Mid 20th century.
Walter Belafontaine was cited by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia as a folk artist.
Ref: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. From their files.
Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Sydney Barker. Painter. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Active mid 20th century.
Sydney Barkers work was in the 1959 National Gallery Exhibition: Folk Painters of the Canadian West. He used watercolours to paint naive scenes of local landcscapes and animals and birds. He has been widely collected in museums and private collections.
Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Ref: N. MacCullough, Folk Painters of the Canadian West. Ottawa: National Gallery. 1959.
Carl Barbour. Painter. Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland. Active 1970’s – .
Carl Barbour was a naive painter. He used acrylic paints to paint scenes of his childhood.
Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Ref: Kobayashi/Bird, A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists (1985).
Ref: P. Grattan. Folk Images ’77. St. Johns, Newfoundland. Memorial University Art Gallery. 1977.
