Clement Cinq-Mars. Sculptor. Wood carver. Longueuil, Quebec. Active mid-20th Century.

Clement Cinq-Mars was sculptor of carvings in Pine and Basswood. He made relief carvings and figures, one is shown (The Embracing Couple)  in From the Heart (1983). His carvings were almost always painted. He signed his work. He is cited in the CCFS.

 

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

Ref: Canadian Centre for Folklore Studies. Canadian Museum of Civilization.

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

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

Lionel Bouchard. Sculptor. Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Quebec. Active 20th century.

He was trained as a carpenter and electrician. He entered a religious order and although he was a sculptor and wood carver, much of Lionel Bouchard’s sculptural work was done in Church and Chapel furnishings.

 

Ref: Website of The Gallerie La Corniche:

http://www.galerielacorniche.com/blog/marie-cecile-bouchard/

Lucien Bouchard. Sculptor. Baie-Saint-Paul. Quebec. Active 20th Century. Moulin Cesar, Riviere-du-Gouffre, Charlevoix, Quebec.

Lucien Bouchard carved formal works, finished with varnish, and less formal painted ones full of charm and color. He began carving when he was very young, winning prizes with them and selling every thing that he made.  These were carvings of the Charlevoix country-side and farms and also fish. Wonderful carved and painted Trout and Salmon. He made Fish Salad bowls as well as his brother Stanley. (see Stanley Bouchard post.) He worked as a Cabinet Maker and carved most of his life.

A carving by Lucien Bouchard. With the ‘Moulin Cesar’ mark:

The Lucien Bouchard ‘Moulin Cesar’ mark:

A carving of a Fish by Lucien Bouchard:

And another by Lucien Bouchard:

 

 

A few quotes from Jacqueline Tremblay (Nee Bouchard). (In an interview with a CMCC ethnologist.):

“I come from a family of artists. My aunt is Mary Bouchard, then there’s Lucien Bouchard, Stanley Bouchard, Arthur Bouchard, Cécile Bouchard, Édith Bouchard and Laure-Marie Bouchard, who created extraordinary sculptures. My other aunts and my mother also tried their hand at art. All of them were quite skilled.”

“My mother made hats. When I was little, I would watch her as she created an extraordinary hat from nothing. My grandfather also made fantastic things. I thought to myself, ‘These people are magicians.’ I wanted to be just like them, and I thought things like that happened at everyone’s house.”

“When I was a child, before going to bed, I would often watch my grandfather, (Joseph-Arsene) who spent a lot of time carving. I would watch what he was doing. I’d ask him, ‘What are you doing?’ And he’d answer, ‘I’m making a small sheep.’ I couldn’t see any sheep at all! But the next morning I would find the little animal on the windowsill.”

Ref: Can. Mus. of Hist. Website:

http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/arts/art-quebec/art-quebec3_6-e.shtml

A link to a Charlevoic County site and Lucien Bouchard:

http://pages.infinit.net/sqe1rl2/lubouch.html

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):

 

 

The Box Open:

 

 

The Reverse showing hangers:

 

Joseph-Arthur Bouchard. Sculptor. Painter. Baie-Saint-Paul, Charlevoix, Quebec. Active 20th century.

Arthur Bouchard carved a wide range of subjects. Animals found around a Charlevoix farm, forest animals and birds were his favorites over the years but he carved people as well; and relief carvings of family life and village scenes. (See the McCord link below). In his early years he painted and was shown, with his sisters, in Galleries in Montreal and the U.S. In 1980, at the age of fifty he began sculpting full time.

 

Two Sheep. Early carvings by Arthur Bouchard. (C.1950):

 

 

Carving of A Rooster By Arthur Bouchard. (C. 1990):

 

 

Carving of a Black Sheep. Joseph-Arthur Bouchard. (C. 1970):

 

 

A ‘Brochet’ or String of Fish by Arthur Bouchard (Trout):

 

 

 

This link to the French Cultural Encyclopedia of North America has an article on the Bouchard and Richard families of sculptors and wood carvers. (In English):

http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/article-470/Animal_Folk_Art.html

And in French:

http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/fr/article-211/Art_populaire_animalier.html