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LALIBERTE, Madeleine
- Born
- Victoriaville, Quebec, 1912
- Died
- Quebec, Quebec, 1998
- Biography synopsis
- Despite a loss of hearing at age twenty-one, Madeleine Laliberte devoted herself to numerous years of art studies, initially in 1932 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts du Quebec. In 1937 she attended the Atelier Gromaire as well as the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and In 1940 she studied at the School of Fine Arts of Mexico. In New York she took courses with Amedee Ozenfant between1942 and 1944. Laliberte first exhibited at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Quebec in 1940, and the following year she won three first prizes at the Quebec Provincial Exhibition. Her colorful paintings varied widely in subject ranging from landscapes and portraits and utilizing both figurative and abstract approaches. A selection of her landscapes were included in the well-known 1947 exhibition of Canadian women artists in Riverside New York. In 1958 she stopped painting for ten years. It was only in 1971 that she exhibited again when the Musee du Quebec held a retrospective of her work. The greatest number of her paintings are held in private collections as well as the Musee nationale des Beaux Arts du Quebec where a selection of her canvases were included in an exhibition of twentieth-century women artists of Quebec in 2010.
- Media used
- Drawing
- Painting
- Watercolour
- Education
- Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Quebec, 1932 - 1937 (under Jean-Paul Lemieux, Omer Parent)
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, 1937 - ?
- Ozenfant School of Fine Arts (New York), 1942 - 1944 (under Amedee Ozenfant)
- 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
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC - Media Centre
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Exposition de Peintures: Mlle. Madeleine Laliberte." Le Soleil (Quebec 1 June, 1950
- "Madeleine Laliberte aux Musee de Quebec." La Presse 14 Sept. 1971: A13
http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2717728?docpos=13 - "Une artiste-peintre de chez nous." L'Union des Cantons (Arthabaska) 27 July 1950
- Lemieux, Jean-Paul. "Coast to Coast in Art 'Quebec' - The Museum of the Province of Quebec." Canadian Art 1.2 (Dec. 1943- Jan. 1944)
- 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.
- Musee du Quebec. Catalogue : exposition Robert Pilot, V.P., R.C.A., Harold Beament, R.C.A., Madeleine Laliberte, Benoit East, Albert Rousseau, avril - mai, 1951 Quebec, Quebec: Musee du Quebec, 1951
- Ostiguy, J.-R.. "Le Langage technique et poétique de Madeleine Laliberté." Vie des Arts 20.81 (Hiver 1975-76): 20–22.
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/55039ac - Ostiguy, Jean-René. Modernism in Quebec Art, 1916-46 Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1982
- Reid, Dennis. A Concise History of Canadian Painting. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1973
- Royer, Jean. "Madeleine Laliberte: peintre malgre tout." Le Soleil (Quebec). 5 Mar. 1977: D10
http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2908115?docpos=10 - Tippett, Maria. By a Lady. Toronto: Viking, 1992
- 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- Roy, Carmen and Madeleine Laliberte (illustrations). Contes populaires gaspésiens. Montreal, Quebec: Fides, 1956
