Pierre Favreau. Sculptor. Wood carver. St.-Cuthbert, Quebec. Active late 20th century-.

Pierre Favreau was a bird carver. He made carvings of the wild birds found in Quebec and Eastern Canada. His carvings were realistic; well carved and colored. He signed his work. He was married to Christiane Desbiens and they shared a studio.

Richard Metivier. Sculptor. Wood carver. Quebec. (Exact location unknown.) Active 1995.

Richard Metivier. His mark is found on a fine painted chip carving of a man ice fishing. It is signed “Richard Metivier ’95”  with a scratch carving of a lantern on the front of the base. The background of this artist is unknown as yet; the images were seen on a popular and informative blog on Quebec folk artists and outsider artists (see note *). Some images are shown below.

The Ice Fisherman by Richard Metivier:

 

Richard Metivier.  His mark:

 

*Ref:Popular Folk Art Forum-Blog (French language): http://www.antiquepromotion.com/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=27

G. Dubois. Painter. Quebec. Active 1970’s.

G. Dubois is the mark seen on a naive painting done in ‘as found’ colours of a harbour scene with fishing boats. It is signed in the lower right and is dated 1973. There is no other information available about the artist.

A painting of a Harbour scene. G. Dubois, 1973:

Damase Rheaume. Sculptor. Wood carver. Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce, Quebec.  Active 19th century.

Damase Rheaume was a bird carver. Active mid to late 19th century; he carved and painted the birds of Quebec. He was collected by Nettie Sharp and others. There is a Robin, a Shore bird and a Carrier Pigeon by Damase Rheaume in the collection of Montreal’s McCord Museum.

Note: The article in Vie des Arts, La Voliere Enchantee,  lists Damase Rheaume as coming from Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce. Other authors put him as being from Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec.

Ref: Francois-Marc Gagnon. Vie des Arts. Vol. 20, No. 82, Spring 1976. “La Voliere Enchantee”.

Link to a PDF (in French): https://www.erudit.org/culture/va1081917/va1186410/55033ac.pdf

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

Ref:Kobayashi/Bird, A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists (1985).

Ref: Adrien Levasseur. Website. And:  Sculpteurs en Art Populaire au Quebec, Editions GID, Quebec. 2012.

Madeleine Duguay Monette. Fibre artist. Rug hooker. St-Elphage, Cte. Kamouraska, Quebec.  Active mid to late 20th century.

Madeleine Dugay Monette was one of Quebec’s most talented hooked rug makers and designers. Her designs are simply stunning and filled with color. She seems to have had no constraints and she showed it with unexpected shapes and a wonderful sense of color. She hooked the traditional scenes of her country and childhood and then seemed to stepped outside the ‘box’ and showed us her imagination in vivid primary colors. Madeleine Duguay Monette hooked with recycled material on jute coffee bags and inspired by patterns in the bags she sometimes incorporated them into her own designs.  Her hooked mats are spectacular and her designs are transcendent. Matisse would sigh.

She hooked rugs from the age of six until she married at the age of 21. In 1984 she moved to Montreal and resumed making hooked rugs of her own designs.

Her work is widely collected in Quebec; both privately and in museums and she also has appeared in many gallery shows.

Madeleine Duguay Monette at a showing of her work in Montreal:

 

A Hooked mat by Madeleine Duguay Monette. The House:

 

Madeleine Duguay Monette. Fabric Artist. Rug Hooker. Using the patterns in the jute coffee sacs:

 

Ref: For a very fine on-line collection of her mats and some biographical notes:

http://www.antiquepromotion.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=3186&forum=27