Denyse Gadbois (1921 – 2013) was a Canadian artist and professor who worked in painting, mural art and sculpture.[1][2]

Denyse Gadbois
Born1921 (1921)
Montreal
Died2013 (aged 91–92)
Known forPainter, muralist and sculptor

Career

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Gadbois was born in Montreal and studied at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1944) with Goodridge Roberts and then in Paris at the Académie Julian.[3] She returned to Canada and in 1945 won a prize for figure painting at the Quebec Provincial Competition. In 1947, she exhibited Girl in Blue at the Riverside Museum, New York in a show entitled "Exhibition of Canadian Women Painters".[4]

Besides painting, she created a series of large murals for the Dominion Textile Company.[4] Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec[1] and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gadbois, Denyse". Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on 9 November 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Gadbois, Denyse (1921-2013)". Dictionnaire Historique (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Gadbois, Denyse". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. 19 July 2022. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  4. ^ a b A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
  5. ^ "Denyse Gadbois". National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2022.