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ANDRE, Francoise Marise Sylvaine
- Naissance
- Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée, France, 1926
- Décès
- Paoli, Pennsylvania, 2009
- Notice biographique
- During the twelve years Francoise Andre spent in Canada beginning in 1951, she and artist husband Stegeman lived in Vancouver where they became active members of the artistic community. She taught painting at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the Banff School of Fine Arts summer schools. Andre had studied art at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Roger Institut voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, and the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Although she had received a formal approach during her studies, she was influenced by the abstraction in the spirituality of Morris Graves and “mystic painter” Mark Tobey in North America. The human figure was always central to her painting, often described as surrealistic. In 1963, she accompanied her husband to Chicago, where he taught at the Art Institute before taking up residence in Philadelphia in 1969. Andre continued her practice in Pennsylvania until 1976, when she divorced. She eventually moved back to Brussels but continued to return to Philadelphia. She exhibited in numerous Canadian museums and galleries; her work is held at Vancouver Art Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Museum, Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique among others.
- Médias
- Painting
- Etudes
- Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts (Brussels)
- Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris
- Roger Institut voor Schone Kunsten (Antwerp)
- Lieux de conservation des dossiers et archives
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
- University of British Columbia Archives
- Vancouver Public Library, BC - Fine Arts and History Department
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Documents sur l'artiste- "Francoise Andre." The Artist Profiles Website. 2009
http://artistprofilesproject.blogspot.com/2010/10/francoise-andre.html. - Dale, William Scott Abell. Charles Stegeman, Françoise André. Vancouver: Keystone Press, 1961.
- Donohoe, Victoria. "“Breadth of Vision Evident in Works of Franco-Belgian Artist. The Philadelphia Inquirer 11 Nov. 2003.
- Elder, Alan and Ian Thom.. A Modern Life: Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960 Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2004.
- Leighton, David and Leighton, Peggy. Artists, Builders and Dreamers-50 Years at the Banff School Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982.
- 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.
- Orloff, Sophie. Francoise Andre: A Quest for an Image of Contemporary Man across the Atlantic. Antwerp: Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, 1984.
- Orloff, Sophie. Françoise André; Jean Louis Ferrier; Sophie Orloff; Marie-France Willaumez; Marc Stegeman; Joseph Plaskett. Belgium: Francoise Andre, 1993.
- Orloff, Sophie. "Interview avec Françoise André." Vie des Arts 30.120 (Fall 1985): 56-57.
- Reichwein, P. and K. Wall. Uplift: Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts Banff: Banff School of Fine Arts, 2020.
- Waters, Beth. "Move From Europe New York Takes Over As World Arts Centre." Calgary Herald 5 Aug 1967: 25.
- Watson, Scott. "Art in the Fifties: Design, Leisure, and Painting in the Age of Anxiety." Vancouver Art and Artists: 1931-1983 Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983.
- Zemens, Joyce. "Francoise André at the Gallery Moos, Toronto." Canadian Art 83 (Jan.Feb. 1963).
