Simone Mary Bouchard

Simone Mary Bouchard
Born1912 (1912)
Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada
Died1945 (aged 32–33)
Known forPainter
MovementPrimitivism

Simone Mary Bouchard (1912–1945) was a Canadian painter and textile artist. She was known for her primitive style of painting.[1]

Early life

Simone Mary Bouchard was born in 1912 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec.[1] She began her career creating hooked rugs for the tourist trade. She became acquainted with the anthropologist Marius Barbeau, and his assistant the ethnologist/painter Jean Palardy. Subsequently, Bouchard repaired textiles for Barbeau and produced rugs for Palardy.[2]

Art career

In 1937 her work was included in and exhibition of North American primitives.[3]

Barbeau and Palardy became aware of Bouchard's paintings, which were naive genre scenes. The men brought her work to the attention of other artists and collectors.[2]

In 1941 Bouchard was included in the Première exposition des Indépendants exhibition at Palais Montcalm in Quebec City. This exhibition was organized by Marie-Alain Couturier and included eleven members of the Contemporary Arts Society; Bouchard,[4] Paul-Émile Borduas, Stanley Cosgrove, Louise Landry Gadbois, Eric Goldberg, John Goodwin Lyman, Louis Muhlstock, Alfred Pellan, Goodridge Roberts, Jori Smith, and Philip Surrey.[5] The exhibition traveled to Montreal.[5]

The Dominion Art Gallery in Montreal held retrospectives of her work in 1947 and 1952.[1]

Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada[6] and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.[7]

Bouchard died in 1945 of a lung ailment.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Bouchard, Simone Marie". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Simone-Marie Bouchard". Lyle Elder: Canadian Folk Art and Outsider Art. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  3. ^ Farr, Dorothy; Luckyj, Natalie (1975). From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre. p. 51.
  4. ^ Tippett, Maria (1992). By a Lady (1. publ. ed.). Toronto, Ont.: Viking. p. 81. ISBN 0670844586.
  5. ^ a b Carney, Lora Senechal (2017). Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925–1955: Writings and Reconsiderations. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 146. ISBN 978-0773551923. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  6. ^ "S. Mary Bouchard". www.gallery.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-05-09. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  7. ^ "Bouchard, Simone Mary".