Pierre Emond. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Quebec City, Quebec. Active 19th century.

Pierre Emond was a sculptor of painted and gilt religious figures. His work also included furniture making. He was cited in Trudel’s work on traditional Quebec sculpture (1967) and also by Barbeau (1957).

Ref: Jean Trudel. Sculpteure Traditional du Quebec. Ministere des Affaires Culturelles. 1967.

Ref: Marius Barbeau,  J’ai vu Québec. Québec City: Garneau.(1957).

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).

A. Durangeau. Sculptor. La Prairie, Quebec. Active 20th century.

A. Durangeau is known for having made a naive weather vane. The artist was cited in ‘From the Heart’ (Pl. 72.1983).

Ref: The Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies. From The Heart: Folk Art in Canada. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto. 1983.

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).

Jean-Claude Dupont. Painter. Illustrator. Sainte-Foy, Quebec. Active mid 20th century.

Jean-Claude Dupont is a  self-taught naive artist. He is also an ethnologist and author in his field. He is a collector of Quebec legends and traditions and illustrates them with his own paintings.

An example of his work:

Jean-Claude Dupont. Legende.

From the Exhibition: Exploring Francophone and Native oral traditions in North America:

“During his field studies throughout French-speaking North America, Jean-Claude Dupont collected hundreds of legends, recording them not only in compilations and other specialized publications, but also in his naïve paintings.”  The exhibition was produced in partnership with the Musée québécois de culture populaire in Trois-Rivières.

Web Site: http://www.pacmusee.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/discovering-legends-with-jean-claude-dupont

Ref: Jean-Claude Dupont, Jacques Mathieu. Heritage de la Francophonie Canadienne, University of Laval Press. 1986.

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).

Ref: G. Boulizon, Y. Daigle and A-M. Bost, Ces Peintres du Quebec et de L’Acadie. Ville Saint-Laurent.Editions du Trecarre. (1989).

R. B. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Laurentian area of Quebec. Active mid 20th century.

R. B. is the mark on this painted carving of a Small Mouth Bass fish dating from the 1950’s. It was found in the Laurentians north of Montreal and came from a hunting and fishing camp north of Mont-Laurier. The fish  is carved from Pine and the fins are made of Linoleum.  The eye is of red plastic. The carving is mounted on a plywood oval. The writing gives a ‘Scientific’ description of the species with the mark: “R. B.” of the artist.

Naive carving of a Small Mouthed Bass. By R. B.:

R. B. Carving of a Black Bass. Quebec. 1960’s.

The reverse with the mark ‘R.B.’:

R. B. Carving of a Black Bass. Quebec. 1960’s. Reverse.

F. X. Dube. Sculptor. Woodcarver. Saint-Jean-Port-Joli. Active 19th century.

F. X. Dube was a sculptor of decorative  woodcarvings. He was known for his religious church carvings. He is cited in Barbeau’s work: ‘I Have Seen Quebec, 1957.*

*Ref: Marius Barbeau. I Have Seen Quebec. Toronto: MacMillan. 1957.

Ref: Marius Barbeau,  J’ai vu Québec. Québec City: Garneau.(1957).

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).