Raymond Levasseur. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Gaspe, QC. (Quebec City?).  Active mid 20th century.

Raymond Levasseur  was a naïve woodcarver known for his painted bird carvings.  Levasseur made carvings of birds mounted on metal legs and attached to a Pine base. His work was always painted in glossy oil paints and he used plastic eyes. He signed his work on the bottom of the base with the note: ‘Bas du Fleuve’.  He was active from about 1960 through the 1970’s.

A carving of a bird by Raymond Levasseur:

Raymond Levasseur. Gaspe, QC. Carving of a Bird. Green speckled. 1960’s. Signed.

His mark:

Raymond Levasseur. Gaspe, QC. His mark.

Jacques Dufour. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Iles-aux-Coudres, Quebec.  Active 1950’s-1960’s.

Jacques Dufour is known for his signed painted carvings of birds, often Seagulls that were sold on the Island to travelers and tourists. Always well carved and painted his naive carvings were signed on the base with a chisel and on the bottom with a stamp. An example is shown below.

Jacques Dufour. Three carved Seagulls:

Three Seagulls. Jacques Dufour. Isle aux Coudres, QC.

Jacques Dufour. His mark:

Three Seagulls. Jacques Dufour. Isle aux Coudres, QC. His mark.

Adalbert Thibault. Sculptor. Wood carver. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. Active 1950’s- 1970’s.

Adalbert Thibault was a flat-plane wood carver. His early work was painted carvings of Quebec people in traditional costume; later in the 1960’s and ’70’s he became known for his painted carvings of Birds and model ships.

His early work was usually signed in script with a pen and occasionally with a chisel.  In later years he used a stamp on the base.

Adalbert Thibault. Three Gannets on driftwood. 1960’s:

Adalbert Thibault. Carving of three Gannets mounted on driftwood.

Adelbert Thibault. His mark with a stamp:

Adalbert Thibault. Mark with stamp.

Flat-plane carved Quebec couple in traditional costume (early 1950’s):

Adalbert Thibault. Quebec Couple in Traditional costume. c 1950.

Adelbert Thibault. His mark in script:

Adelbert Thibault. His mark in script.

Flat plane carving by Adelbert Thibault. A man in yellow. (1950’s):

Adalbert Thibault.  Man in Yellow.

Adalbert Thibault. His mark with a chisel:

Adalbert Thibault. Signed with a chisel.

Photograph of Adelbert Thibault in his studio (1950’s):

Adelbert Thibault dans son atelier.

Adelard Thibault. Sculptor. Wood carver. Launay, Abitibi-Ouest Co., Quebec. Active mid 20th Century.

Adelard Thibault was a primitive artist best known for his carvings of people on the farm and of men at work. He often made mechanical works that moved or performed an action. Sawyers, plowing and other horse-drawn farm equipment. M. Thibault was a farmer and railroad worker and his work reflected his life. He 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.

Leandre Dube. Woodcarver. Sculptor. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.

Leandre Dube made figural carvings in the flat-plane tradition of St-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. His carvings were of people in the traditional costume and scenes of Quebec. He always painted his work and signed on top of the base of the carving in the Bourgault style – in ink or chisel. His carvings are of a smaller size and are rarely found. They date from the 1930’s – early 1940’s.*

A pair of seated Quebec figures by Leandre Dube:

Leandre Dube. St-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. 1930s-40s .

A side view:

Leandre Dube. St-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. 1930s-40s.

The mark in script of Leandre Dube:

Leandre Dube. St-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. 1930s-40s The mark .

Another example of the mark of Leandre Dube:

Leandre Dube. The mark.

*Leandre Dube was one of several Quebec flat-plane woodcarvers whose carving careers seemed to have stopped sometime in the 1940’s or in a few cases the very early 1950’s. (The second world war may have been a factor for some.)