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DUMOUCHEL, Suzanne Beaudoin
- Born
- Montreal, Quebec, 1920
- Died
- Montreal, Quebec, 2018
- Biography synopsis
- Suzanne Beaudoin Dumouchel was the daughter of Lucienne Gaudreau, a musician, and Louis-Philippe Beaudoin, bookbinder and founder of the École des arts graphiques de Montréal. She studied at the Ecole des beaux arts de Montreal from 1939 to 1942 and later in Paris. In 1955 she travelled in France with her husband, well-known printmaker Albert Dumouchel. On subsequent trips, she studied lithography in the Desjobert Ateliers and the technique of eaux-forte at the Leblanc Ateliers in Paris. She also studied serigraphy at the Perrault Ateliers in Montreal. During the 70s, she taught art at the CEGEP du Vieux Montreal and also participated in numerous international and local exhibitions. In 1975 she completed a M.A. in Art Education at Concordia University; her thesis entitled "La fondation des arts graphiques" covered the school her father had founded. In 2001, she had a solo exhibition entitled "de Cézanne à Suzanne" in Montreal.
- Media used
- Painting
- Printmaking
- File & Archive locations
- Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
- 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
- Toronto Reference Library, ON
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Arts visuels: L'art explore ... et s'expose." La Presse (Montreal) 3 May 1998: C12
- Bourassa, Andre-G. Surréalisme et littérature québécoise L'Etincelle Internet Archive, 1977
- Brunet-Weinmann, M. "Suzanne Dumouchel: L'apprentissage du moi." Vie des arts 24.97 (Winter 1979-1980): 37-39
- Leroux, Eric. "La Formation des ouvriers des métiers du livre au Québec (1925-1971): le cas de l'École des arts graphiques de Montréal." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada/Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada45, no 1 : 67-96. 45.1 (2007): 67-96
- Ostiguy, Jean-René. Modernism in Quebec Art, 1916-46 Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1982
- Pinard, Guy. "Rendez-vous 92: La maison Joseph-David." La Presse (Montreal) 16 Feb. 1992: B7
- Prakash, A. K. Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books, 2008
- Swoboda, Victor. "Painter Shows her Roots: From Cezanne to Suzanne Reflects the Evolution of a Sensitive Artist." Gazette (Montreal) 12 May 2001: I2
Writings by- Dumouchel, Suzanne Beaudoin. La Fondation des arts graphiques / The Foundation of the Graphic Art School in Canada. Montreal: Concordia University, 1976
- Dumouchel, Suzanne Beaudoin. La Premiere école d'arts graphiques en Amérique: Fondée par Louis-Philippe Beaudoin (1900-1967) Montreal: ?, 1979
