École des beaux-arts de Montréal

École des beaux-arts de Montréal (The School of Fine Arts in Montreal; EBAM) was an educational institution founded in Quebec in 1922. The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society was instrumental in its creation. Its former Sherbrooke Street building now houses the Office québécois de la langue française.

Faculty of the school include Edwin Holgate as well as Academy Award-winning animator and painter Frédéric Back, who taught there briefly prior to joining Radio-Canada.^[1]

The building was completed in 1922 as the Commercial & Technical High School, designed by Montreal architect Jean-Omer Marchand, and is located at 3450 Saint Urbain Street (at Sherbrooke Street) in Montreal.^[2]

In 1969, the school was incorporated into the Faculty of the Arts of the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Notable alumni edit

Jean L Auger
Micheline Beauchemin
Paul-Émile Borduas
Ghitta Caiserman-Roth^[3]
John Alton Collins
Jacques Drouin^[4]
Pierre Granche
Sylvia Lefkovitz
Enid Legros-Wise
Jean Paul Lemieux
Anna McGarrigle (1964–1968)^[5]^{: 212, 229–230}
Anne Isabelle McQuire (1921–2006)
Guido Molinari
Claude Roussel
Armand Vaillancourt

References edit

^ Hustak, Alan. "Montrealer Frédéric Back won Oscars for animated films". The Globe and Mail. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
^ "FICHE DU BÂTIMENT". Grand répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Montréal. City of Montreal. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
^ "Caiserman-Roth, Ghitta" in Elizabeth Sleeman, ed., The International Who's Who of Women 2002 (2002), p. 86
^ "Drouin, Jacques". NFB Profiles. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
^ McGarrigle, Anna & Jane (2015). Mountain City Girls. Canada: Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0-345-81402-9.