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GRAVEL, Raymonde
- Born
- Montreal, Quebec, 1913
- Died
- Sainte-Foy, Quebec, 1993
- Biography synopsis
- When her family moved to Windsor, Ontario in 1927, Raymond Gravel attended the John Wicker's School of Fine Arts in Detroit and also took classes at the Detroit Society of Arts. In 1934 she studied at the Academie Julian, as well as the Ecole nationale superieure des beaux arts in Paris. Her paintings included still life, portraits, and landscapes. Her work was accepted at the Salon de Paris (1936) and the following year at the Royal Canadian Academy annual exhibition held in Montreal. She worked in Ottawa before returning to Quebec in 1947, exploring various media, including book illustration and murals (church decoration) (murals) at the Eglise St. Luc in St Jean Sur Richelieu in 1958. In 2021 her portraits were exhibited at the Musee de Joliette as well as at the Musee des Beaux Arts de Sherbrooke. Both these museums as well as the Musee Louis Hemon in northern Quebec hold her work.
- Media used
- Book illustration
- Mural painting and decoration
- Painting
- Education
- Académie Julian, Paris, 1934 - ?
- Detroit College of Art
- École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
- File & Archive locations
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC - Media Centre
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "66th Annual Spring Exhibition opens at the Museum of Fine Arts." The Gazette (Montreal) 20 Apr. 1949: 10
- "Art Association Spring Show opens." The Gazette (Montreal) 6 Apri. 1945: 9
- "Six Painters exhibit Characteristic Work." The Gazette (Montreal) 21 Feb. 1948: 24
- Burrell, Elizabeth. Windsor Celebrates 100 Years of Visual Art. Windsor, Ontario: : Art Gallery of Windsor, 1992
- Gour, Romain. "Raymonde Gravel: artiste-peintre." Qui? art, musique, littérature Montréal 2.2 (Sept. 1950): 6-8
- 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
- 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.
Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Royal Canadian Academy Annual Exhibition: (Montreal, November 18, 1937) "Royal Canadian Academy Show is Opened at Art Association. Portraiture Represented by Good Examples and Landscapes as Usual Predominate." Gazette (Montreal) November 19, 1937. p.12. Full-text pdf
