Marie-Anne Simard. Painter. Petite-Riviere-Saint-Francois, Charlevoix County, Quebec. Active 1940’s.
Marie-Anne Simard (and her sister Berthe) in the 1930’s were encouraged by Jori Smith and Jean Palardy to paint. She was self-taught and possessed a very fine sense of colour and made naive paintings of her life and family in Charlevois County. She was among the Charlevoix artists featured in the book on Charlevoix painters: Peindre un Pays Where her story is told. She was also in the film: Paintres folklorique de Charlevoix, ( ‘Folk Painters of Charlevoix’ ) made by Jean Palardy.
Marie-Anne Simard contracted Tuberculosis and died in 1952.
Ref: http://www.museedecharlevoix.qc.ca/en/history-heritage/folk-art
Ref: Richard Dubé et François Tremblay, Peindre un pays: Charlevoix et ses peintres populaires,
Laprairie: Éditions Broquet, 1989.
