Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Charlevoix Landscape
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Gallery
Cosner Art Gallery Ritz - Carlton Montreal
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Medium
Watercolor
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Time
Canadian landscape painter
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Dimensions
61 x 73,6 cm | 24'' x 29''
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Dimensions with frame
76,2 x 93,9 cm | 30'' x 37''
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Signed
Signed lower left
Marc-Aurèle Fortin therefore advocates the national art of the French-Canadian terroir. Like his predecessors such as Suzor-Coté and Clarence Gagnon, Fortin painted the habitat rather than the inhabitant. He wanted to paint rurality beyond the Quebec climate. Moreover, Marc-Aurèle Fortin affirmed this: "So I invented green trees. I said: There is something other than snow in the province of Quebec."1
Fortin's nature was that of the countryside and agricultural activity. According to Fortin, the national identity passed through this rather than through the wild nature of the great virgin spaces. For an artist who clings to this vision of nationalism and its traditions.
other works of the artist
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Bas St-Laurent
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Fin du jour, Sainte-Rose
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Port of Montreal from Sainte-Helen's Island
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Hochelaga
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Untitled (View of Mount Royal)
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Vue sur Longueuil
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
April Landscape, St-Rose
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Untitled (Port de Montréal)
