Canadian Folk Art and Outsider Art
Maurice Arsenault. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Saint-Celestin, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.
Maurice Arsenault was a naive sculptor. He made carvings of People, animals and relief carvings. He was mentioned in the Upper Canadian magazine in 1986 and 1988.
Ref:Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Arnold, (First name unknown.) Painter. Quebec. Active mid 20th century
Mr or Mrs Arnold was a naive artist who made landscape paintings in oil. There is a painting of building on fire illustrated in McKendry’s Companion. Signed and dated. (Colour plate McKendry 1983 pl.92)
Ref:Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999 pl. 82) (1983 pl. 92.)
Elizabeth Angrnatquak. Fabric artist. Baker Lake, Northwest Territories. Active mid 20th century- .
Elizabeth Angrnatquak is a fabric artist and a maker of naive tapestries and wall hangings of people and animals.
Ref:Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999)
Billy Andrews. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Bradford, Ontario. Active 1970’s- .
Billy Andrews worked as a hired hand on farms and made naive carvings of farm animals and birds. He paints his carvings and sometimes signs them in script. His carvings are in private collections and museums.
Ref: Twas Ever Thus, Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Price Collection of Folk Art. Toronto. 1979.
Ref:Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999)
Floyd Allen. Painter. Kingston, Ontario. Active mid 20th century.
Floyd Allen was a painter of marine views and landscapes.
Ref:Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999)
