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
Rougemont View from Mont-Royal
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Gaspesie Landscape
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Baie-St-Paul
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Port of Quebec
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Landscape
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Sailships in Gaspesie
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Boats moored in the Port of Montreal
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Elms at Ste-Rose
