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LEVESQUE, Isabel
- Born
- Castor, Alberta, 1919
- Died
- Edmonton, Alberta, 2012
- Biography synopsis
- Isabel Levesque began painting landscapes of her family’s farm at a young age. She studied painting at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (now Alberta College of Art & Design) from 1945 to 1947. A few years later she moved to Peace River where she continued to draw and paint while raising her family. From 1967 to 1969 Levesque studied painting at the Alberta College of Art, and in 1971 she graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Education (major in art). She subsequently taught for a short time in Edmonton. During the course of her various studies, she was taught by Walter Phillips, A.Y. Jackson, H.G. Glyde, and Stanford Perrott. The subjects of her realistic paintings were rural Alberta landscapes. Her work is held in private collections as well as different corporate and public collections including the Alberta Provincial Art Collection.
- Media used
- Acrylics
- Oil painting
- Watercolour
- Education
- Alberta College of Art, 1967 - 1969
- Provincial Institute of Art and Technology, Calgary, Alberta, 1945 - 1947
- University of Calgary
- Banff School of Fine Arts
- Memberships
- Alberta Society of Artists, 1978-80, 82-83
- File & Archive locations
- Alberta Culture and Community Spirit - Arts Branch
- Calgary Public Library, AB - Arts Department
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Edmonton Art Gallery, AB - Library
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- University of Calgary Library, AB
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Alberta Art Foundation. Spaces and Places: Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta: Alberta Art Foundation, 1986
http://archive.org/details/spacesplaces1986/page/n1/mode/2up - Baker, Suzanne Devonshire. Artists of Alberta. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1980
- McMullen, W.B.. Alberta Art: Works from The Alberta Art Foundation. Edmonton: Alberta Art Foundation, 1975
- Schmidt, Lucille. Alberta Art. Edmonton: Alberta Art Foundation, 1975
- Simpson, Jim. "Variety in Form highlights Exhibition: Exhibition by Women Artists." Edmonton Journal 17 Jan. 1979
- Townshend, Nancy. A History of Art in Alberta, 1905-1970 Calgary, Alberta: Bayeux, 2005
- Zimon, Kathy E. Alberta Society of Artists: The First Seventy Years Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000
