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FAUTEUX, Claire
- Born
- Montreal, Quebec, 1890
- Died
- Montreal, Quebec, 1988
- Biography synopsis
- Marie Claire Fauteux studied at the Art Association of Montreal, and then travelled to Europe to continue studying art. She painted portraits and landscapes, worked as a mural decorator, and a professor of fine arts. She first exhibited her work at the Art Association of Montreal in 1912, and continued to show her paintings there until 1947. She debuted her work at the Royal Canadian Academy in 1916, but would only show there four more times before 1947. In 1916-1917, Fauteux exhibited her work with two other female artists, Rita Mount and B. Lemoine, in a small group show at the Saint Sulpice Library in Montreal. She was a teacher at the Trafalgar Institute in Montreal and at the boarding school Notre Dame du Sacre Coeur in New York. After the First World War she went to Paris with the bursary she received from the Women's Art Society in 1921. Fauteux worked for the Archives of Canada while in France, copying old documents. She took classes from Maurice Denis for two years. As a British subject, Fauteux was held prisoner first in Besançon and later in Vittel during the German occupation of France, sketching and drawing how she and the other inmates spent their time for the seven months she was detained. These drawings would later be rendered into paintings, as well as provide illustrations for her own book, "Fantastic Interlude," which detailed her experiences as a prisoner of war in France. She returned to Canada in 1944 and she was featured in an exposition at the Galerie l'Art Francais in Montreal in 1947. She would then go on to teach painting at the School of Fine Arts in Montreal.
- Media used
- Book illustration
- Drawing
- Painting
- Education
- Art Association of Montreal, 1907 - ? (under W. Brymner, M. Cullen, R. Pilot, A. Lismer)
- Académie Julian, Paris (under Guillaumat)
- Private study (under Maurice Denis)
- File & Archive locations
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Toronto Reference Library, ON
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Catalogue des peintures, aquarelles et pastels exposés à la Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice par Mesdemoiselles R. Mount, C. Fauteux, B. LeMoyne. Montréal: Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice, 1916
- "A Final Glance Around the Art Exhibition Here." Daily Star (Montreal) 12 Apr. 1922: 6
- "Art Works On View Set High Standard: Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Royal Canadian Academy Is Opened." Gazette (Montreal) 17 Nov. 1916
- "Canadian Academy Full of Interest." Globe and Mail (Toronto) 21 Nov. 1921
- "Claire Fauteux Shows Variety in Paintings." Gazette (Montreal) 20 Jan. 1951
- "Claire Fauteux Shows Works in Three Media." Gazette (Montreal) 4 Oct. 1947
- "Claire Fauteux Water Colours." Montreal Daily Star 8 Oct. 1947
- "Exposition à la galérie d'art français, Montréal." Arts, Beaux Arts, Litérature, Spectacles. (10 Oct. 1947): 5
- "Femina Exhibit is Inaugurated." Quebec Chronicle Telegraph 11 Feb. 1947
- "Fewer Paintings, Higher Standards: Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Art Association of Montreal." Gazette (Montreal) 1 Apr. 1921
- "High Standard Set by R.C.A. Pictures: Forty-Fourth Exhibition Opened With Private View Last Night." Gazette (Montreal) 17 Nov. 1922: 9
- "L'exposition de Claire Fauteux à la galérie de l'art français." Photo Journal (Montreal) 16 Oct. 1947
- "Le Salon du Printemps." La Patrie (Montreal) 26 Mar. 1928: 17
- "Le salon du printemps." Le Devoir (Montreal) 4 Apr. 1940: 4
- "Nos femmes artistes admirées à Québec." La Presse (Montreal) 20 Mar. 1947
- "Paintings by Three at Art Association." Gazette (Montreal) 25 May 1946
- "Three Painters At Art Gallery" Daily Star Montreal: 23 May, 1946.
- Bertrand, Magdeleine. Les Femmes artistes du Québec de 1875 à 1925. Montreal: Université de Montréal, 1990
- Bourbeau, Géraldine. "Claire Fauteux." Liaison 1.9 (Nov. 1947): 556-8
- Canadian Newspaper Service. Canadian Newspaper Service Reference Book: Biographical Reference Data and General Information. Montreal: Canadian Newspaper Service, Ltd, 1940
- Desbiens, Lucien. "Les salons: Mlle Claire Fauteux." Le Devoir (Montreal) 2 Jan. 1934
- Desjardins, Marie-Paule. Dictionnaire biographique des femmes célèbres et rémarquables de notre histoire. Montréal: Guérin, 2007
- Gauvreau, Claude. "Révolution à la société d'art contemporain." Le Quartier Latin (Québec) 5 Dec. 1946: 5
- Huot, Maurice. "La peinture: Claire Fauteux." La Patrie (Montreal) 16 Jan. 1951
- Karel, David. Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes et orfèvres. Quebec: Museé du Québec, 1992
- Laliberté, Alfred. Les Artistes de mon temps. Montreal: Le Boréal, 1986
- Langley, Anne. "Nine to Five." Herald (Montreal) 29 May 1946
- Letondal, Henri. "Une exposition des Oeuvres de Mlle Claire Fauteux." La Patrie (Montreal) ?
- McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Royal Canadian Academy of Arts/Académie royale des arts du Canada: Exhibitions and Members 1880-1979 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981
- Morgan-Powell, S. "A Final Glance Around the Art Exhibition Here." Star (Montreal) 12 Apr. 1922
- Musée du Québec. Catalogue exposition "Fémina," Sylvia Daoust, A.R.C.A., Simone Dénéchaud, Suzanne Duquet, Claire Fauteux, Agnes Lefort, G. Paige Pinneo, Marion Scott. Quebec: Musée du Québec, 1947
- Musée du Quebec. Catalogue: Exposition "Fémina", Sylvia Daoust, A.R.C.A., Simone Dénéchaud, Suzanne Duquet, Claire Fauteux, Agnès Lefort, G. Paige Pinneo, Marion Scott. Québec: Musée de la Province de Québec, 1947
- Trepanier, Esther and Landry, Pierre. Femmes artistes du XXe siecle au Quebec: Oeuvres du Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec. Quebec, Quebec: Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, 2010.
Writings by- Fauteux, Claire. Fantastic Interlude. New York: Vantage Press, 1961
Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Princess Patricia's Work Shown at Spring Exhibition of the Art Association." Daily Witness (Montreal) . p.11. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Opening, a Social Event. A Princess Exhibits." Gazette (Montreal) . p.4. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Art Show Has 478 Exhibits. Even Excellence Dominant Note at Art Association Which Opened Last Night. Nothing Very Daring." Gazette (Montreal) . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Fabien, Henri. "Chronique d'art. Le salon du printemps. I." Le Devoir (Montreal) . p.1. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Younger Artists Well Represented. Some Leading Exhibitors Are Absent from Thirty-Third Spring Exhibition." Gazette (Montreal) . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Henri Fabien. "Au salon du printemps. Peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs." Le Devoir (Montréal) . p.1. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Art Works on View Set High Standard." Gazette (Montreal) . p.7. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "No Freak Pictures at Spring Show. Big Exhibition at Art Gallery but Works Small in Size. An Added Attraction: French War Posters, Medals and Souvenirs on View to Aid Red Cross Work." Gazette (Montreal) . p.13. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) E.B.. "Artists Young and Well-known in Exhibition." Montreal Herald . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Gallery. Returned Soldier Exhibits Two Works Sketched at the Front." Gazette (Montreal) . p.5. Full-text pdf
- The Joint Annual Exhibition of the RCA and the OSA: (Toronto; Montreal (Fall), ) "Spring Exhibit at Art Gallery. Returned Soldier Exhibits Two Works Sketched at the Front. Four Artists Overseas. Late Exhibition of R.C.A. Held Works that Usually Came to Montreal - Good Watercolors." Gazette (Montreal) . p.7. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Exposition artistique a Montreal. Ouverture du Salon des peintres et des sculpteurs a la Art Association." La Presse . p.21. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "L'ouverture du salon." Le Canada (Montreal) . p.3. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Artist's Efforts Reach High Level." Gazette (Montreal) . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Le salon du printemps." Le Devoir (Montreal) . p.8. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Exposition de peintures par nos artistes. Quantité de toiles remarquables et fort intéressantes exposées au salon." La Presse (Montreal) . p.7. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Fewer Paintings, Higher Standards. Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Art Association of Montreal. Private View Last Night." Gazette (Montreal) . p.11. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Le trente-huitieme salon s'ouvre au musse des arts. Les pièces d'exposition sont nombreuses et, autant que d'inspiration, différentes de facture. Souci de la technique. La recherche minutieuse des nuances. Couleurs. Etudes physiognomiques." Le Canada (Montreal) . p.8,5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at the Art Galleries." Montreal Herald . p.3. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Toronto, ) Hector Charlesworth. "Impressions of the Royal Canadian Academy." Toronto Saturday Night . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Exhibits Drawn From Wide Area. Growing Importance of Spring Art Exhibition More Generally Recognized." Gazette (Montreal) . p.5. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) S. Morgan-Powell. "A Final Glance Around the Art Exhibition Here. II." Montreal Daily Star . p.6. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "High Standard Set by R.C.A. Pictures. Forty-Fourth Exhibition Opened With Private View Last Night." Gazette (Montreal) . p.9. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) Albert Laberge. "Paysages et portraits." La Presse (Montreal) . p.2. Full-text pdf
- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, ) ALIQUIS.. "L'actualité. Au salon." Le Devoir (Montreal) . p.1. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, ) "Spring Exhibition at Art Galleries. Jury Selection Sympathetic to Sincere and Normal Work - Promise Shown by New Exhibitors." Gazette (Montreal) . p.12. Full-text pdf