Canadian Folk Art and Outsider Art
Alphonse Leclair. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. Active 1930’s.
Alphonse Leclair carved religious sculptures. He worked in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. He is cited in McKendry.
Ref:Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Benoit Leclerc. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Levis, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.
Benoit Leclerc was a naive sculptor. He carved people, unpainted and coloured. And he made intricate chip-carvings, often inlaid with marquetry of picture frames, clock shelves and just pretty things. His portraits (one of Napoleon) he coloured with gouache. Benoit Leclerc 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.
Ref:Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Albini Lebreux. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Cloridorme, Gaspe, Quebec. active late 20th century- .
Albini Lebreux makes life-sized animals and people in cement as well as woodcarvings of forest animals. His cement sculptures include a life-sized Giraffe, a horse pulling a cart and a moose and deer. There is also a Creche with all of the figures. All in paint and lifelike enough to fool the eye.
Ref: Adrien Levasseur. Website. And: Sculpteurs en Art Populaire au Quebec, Editions GID, Quebec. 2012.
Ethel Armine Leather. Painter. British Columbia. Active early 20th century.
Ethel Leather was a naive painter.
Ref: J. Russel Harper. A People’s Art. University of Toronto Press. 1974.
Ref:Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1989)
Hidola Lebel. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Levis, Quebec. Active early 20th century.
Hidola Lebel was a naive sculptor of painted carvings of people and animals and also models of ships.
Ref:Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).
Ref: Canadian Antiques and Art Review.
