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ROUSSEAU-RIOUX, Yolande

Born
Trois-Pistoles, Québec, 1910
Died
Trois-Pistoles, Québec, 2003
Biography synopsis
Yolande Rousseau (Rousseau-Rioux) was Mariette Rousseau-Vermette's (1926-2006) sister. From 1952 to 1954, Yolande Rousseau studied at the École des arts appliqués de Montréal, specializing in ceramics under Jean Cartier. During the 1950s, she gained an excellent reputation for her ceramics and pottery. In 1959, she participated in the Spring Exhibition at the Art Association of Montreal , and in 1960 she won second prize in an art contest in the province of Quebec. During the latter part of the 1960s, she worked on murals that she produced with found objects from the shores of the St. Lawrence River, an area she considered to be a "gold mine" in terms of material. Her work focused on religious themes related to Gaspesian history. A number of her murals can be found in churches in Montreal and Toronto; still others exist at Université Laval, as well as in private homes. Yolande Rousseau also worked as a ceramics teacher for twenty-eight years at Camp Tékakwitha (Maine).
Media used
Ceramics
Education
École des arts appliqués, Montréal, 1952 - 1954 (under Jean Cartier)
File & Archive locations
University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
Culture, revue trimestrielle, sciences religieuses et sciences profanes au Canada. Québec: Assoc. de recherches sur les sciences réligieuses et pr, vol. 21 (1960)
Amélie Lévesque et al.. Trois-Pistoles: culture et patrimoine: la revue du souvenir de la vie culturelle et du patrimoine de Trois-Pistoles. Trois Pistoles: Communications Faucon, 1996
Bourbonnais, Marie. "Murales exécutées avec des matériaux déposés sur nos rivages à l'heure des grandes marées." La Presse (Montreal) 21 Oct. 1967
Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition. General Report on the 1967 World Exhibition. vol.4 (1969): 2233
MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009.
Nelson, Glenn C.. Ceramics: a potter's handbook. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971
Régnier, Michel, Pierre Dumas et al. Arts, 1960. Montreal: Québec- Archives nationales du Québec, 1990
Rioux, Emmanuel, Société hist. et généal. Trois-Pistoles. Histoire de Trois-Pistoles, 1697-1997. Trois-Pistoles: Centre d'édition des Basque, 1997
Robert, Guy. L'Art au Québec depuis 1940. Montreal: La Presse, 1973
Society for Art Publications. Artscanada. vol. 18 (1961)
Stone, Sheila. "Uses Pebbles, Driftwood and Shells to Make her Prize-winning Murals." Montreal Star 7 Dec. 1966

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