Stanley Bouchard. Sculptor. Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Quebec. Active second half 20th Century.
Stanley Bouchard, who remained a bachelor, was the oldest of the Bouchard brothers. His favorite subject was Fish. Trout in all its forms. He made simple ‘brochets” that he learned to carve when he was a child; simple carvings of a trout with a twig through it’s mouth and gills that hung on a wall as a decoration-these he learned from his father Joseph-Arsene. And he made elaborate turned wooden salad bowls with a carved and painted trout arching from one side to the other, serving as a handle, complete with a serving fork and spoon with carved and painted trout handles. And boxes in the shape of fish, with hinged tops, that could be hung on the wall as well. Stanley Bouchard began carving when he was 15. He carved other things than fish. He made models of mills, religious carvings, birds, animals and relief carvings of Quebec legends. Stanley Bouchard was shown in a number of exhibitions. He sometimes signed with a signature and sometimes with a stamp (that he seemed to share with his brother, Lucien in later years), and sometimes with an “S. B.” in paint or script. (We sometimes have to look closely for this S.B. mark.)
One of Stanley Bouchard’s Carved Boxes: (1970’s):
Stanley Bouchard. Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec. Painted Box. Trout.
The Box Open:
Stanley Bouchard. Trout Box. Baie-Saint-Paul Quebec. Open.
The Reverse showing hangers:
Stanley Bouchard. Reverse of Box.
