Hochelaga landscape
The painter Marc-Aurèle Fortin begins the 1930s with a new breath. Recognized by the critics for the magnificence of the trees in his works of the early 1920s, Fortin showed his interest in urban activity by walking the streets of Montreal. Quickly, the painter focused on Hochelaga, a part of the city in full change or industrialization which encroaches on the last fields still present in the city. Settling on top of a promontory, the artist made several watercolors of this unusual landscape.
It is also thanks to one of his landscapes of Hochelaga that Fortin gets the museum recognition. The National Gallery of Canada selects one of its Hochelaga landscapes in 1930 and purchases it the following year. Hochelaga's views allow Marc-Aurèle Fortin to gain recognition in the rest of Canada and abroad.
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Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Hochelaga landscape, c. 1930
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Gallery
Cosner Art Gallery - Montreal
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Medium
Watercolor
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Time
Fine Canadian Art
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Dimensions
24,1 cm x 35,5 cm / 9,5'' x 14''
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Signed
Signed lower left
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Port of Montreal from Sainte-Helen's Island, c. 1923
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Vue sur Longueuil, c.1930
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Port of Quebec, c. 1950
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Untitled Mount Royal view, c.1925
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Montreal Port , c.1950
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Bas St-Laurent
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
L'orme solitaire, c.1922
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Ste-Rose Study, c.1934
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Un merveilleux automne, c. 1922