FORTIN, Marc-Aurèle

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About the artist

Marc-Aurèle Fortin (March 14, 1888 – March 2, 1970) was a Québécois painter.

Marc-Aurèle Fortin was born in 1888 in Ste-Rose, Quebec. He studied art in Montreal. He worked at the Montreal Post Office and at an Edmonton bank. He studied art abroad. He was known for painting watercolour landscapes of the St. Lawrence Valley. He travelled around the St. Lawrence Valley by bicycle. Fortin believed that “Canadian artists should take their inspiration from the countryside and progress towards a national art… We should excel in landscapes, exactly as the French do”.

He was part of the first Atelier exhibition at Henry Morgan Galleries in April 1932 together with Atelier founder John Goodwin Lyman, André Biéler, and Edwin Holgate.[1] Fortin was exhibited by Galerie L’Art français from the 1940s.[2]

His works are displayed at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts[3] He died in 1970. [4]

(Wikipedia)