Painting by Marc-Aurele Fortin
Fortin
studied painting first in Montreal under Ludger Larose and Edmond
Dyonnet, then two years in the United
Sates from 1909-1911, first at the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts and then at
the Art Institute of Chicago.
His
brush transforms heavy clouds, thick foliage
and
rising hills into large, free forms, vibrating with colour.
In the
late thirties and all through the forties
he painted in the lower Saint Lawrence
area, in the Gaspé and around
Saint-Simon
on the lower Saint Lawrence River.
His
favourite subjects were the large elms in small Quebec villages,
hay wagons on country roads, and
the flowing curves of the roof- tops of the Quebec
farmhouses.
Above information is from this site
One of my favourite painters ,Fortin captures the feeling of the part of Quebec where we had our hookin last weekend . . .I love the colours in the fields and the incredible skies . .the mountains and the simplicity of shapes . .totally inspiring for dyeing wool and hooking colour!
I also went to The Boston Museum of Fine Arts school . . .. I am sorry there were so many years in between and I could not sit beside him!
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