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BRUNEAU, Kittie
- Born
- Montreal, Quebec, 1929
- Died
- Calgary, Alberta, 2021
- Biography synopsis
- Kittie Bruneau studied painting at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal (1946-49) and the Montreal Artists School where she was taught by Ghitta Caiserman-Roth. In 1950 she moved to Paris to attend the Academie Julian, at the same time exploring the world of dance with the Maurice Bejart Dance Troupe which strongly influenced her visual production. In Paris she was influenced by the expressionist approach of COBRA artists. When she returned to Quebec in 1961, she moved to the Gaspe region where her paintings focused on the natural world and light of this area. During the 1980s she received a bursary to paint large murals in various locations in Quebec. Although she travelled widely, studying with woodblock printmaker Yoshida in Japan (1985) and subsequently in South America and Asia, she always returned to her studio in Gaspe. She also worked every year with First Nations Stoney artists in Alberta. She exhibited widely in Quebec in the 1960s: Museum of Fine Arts of Montréal (1962), Musée d’art contemporain (1966), and the Musee nationale du Quebec, where her works are held. In 2019, the museum Le Chafaud de Percé in the Gaspe celebrated her 90th birthday with a retrospective. She also collaborated in numerous artists books which, along with prints, are held at the Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales du Quebec.
- Media used
- Artists' books
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Education
- Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 1946 - 1949
- Montreal Artists School (under Ghitta Caiserman-Roth)
- Académie Julian, Paris, 1950 - ?
- Memberships
- Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
- File & Archive locations
- Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Edmonton Art Gallery, AB - Library
- Hamilton Public Library, ON - Local History and Archives Department
- London Public Library, ON
- 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
- University of Calgary Library, AB
- Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Kittie Bruneau." Artscanada 234 (1980): 59
- Arbour, Rose Marie. "L’atelier libre de recherches graphiques et la guilde graphique." Vie des Arts 22.90 (Spring 1978) 29–90.
http://www.erudit.org/en/journals/va/1900-v1-n1-va1177708/54837ac.pdf - Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec. L'Estampe originale au Québec, 1980-1990. Montreal: Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec, 1991
- Champeau, Nicole (illstrated by Kittie Bruneau). Dans les pas de la Louve. Ripon: Ecrits des Hauts-Terres, 1999.
- Derouin, Rene and Gilles Lapointe. Les Jardins du Précambrien: Symposiums internationaux d'art in situ, 2001-2006. Montreal, Quebec: Hexagone, 2007.
- Duran, Michel. "Elle valorise les gestes qu' ébauchent les enfants." Le Petit Journal Nov. 1964: A-95
- Gallery Quan. Kittie Bruneau. Toronto, Ontario: Gallery Quan, 1982.
- Gilbert, Serge. Dict du Nord profond (drawing by Kittie Bruneau) Sept-Iles, Quebec: Imprimerie de Sept-Iles, ?
- Goudreau, A., Goudreau, P. and Celine and P. Robitaille. Farouchement Kittie Bruneau. Montreal, Quebec: Production Alain Goudreau, 2022.
- Heller, Jules and Nancy. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century. New York: Garland, 1995.
- Kozinska, Dorota. Kittie Bruneau: a mini retrospective / une petite rétrospective: paintings/tableaux Westmount, Quebec: Han Gallery, 2015
- Kozinska, Dorota. "Kittie Bruneau: Eruptions." Vie des Arts 241 (Winter 2015/2016): 70-71.
- Lavalin Inc. Prints and Plates: 23 Quebec Printmakers: the Lavalin Collection. Montreal, Quebec: Lavalin, 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.
- Paquet, Bernard. "Kittie Bruneau Le Carnaval des mythologies." Vie des Arts 39.158 (Spring 1995): 49-55.
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/53469ac - Renaud, Jacques. "Kittie Bruneau: Heritiere du Surrealisme." Vie des Arts 22.90 (1978): 61-63.
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/54845ac - Roussan, Jacques de. Kittie Bruneau. Montreal, Quebec: Lidec Inc., 1967.
- Steinbert-Kraut, E et al. . Actuelles I. Montréal, Quebec: Air Canada, 1983
- Therien, Nicole. De l'elan primitiviste aux masques dans la peinture de Kittie Bruneau. (MA thesis) Montreal, Quebec: Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992
- Therien, Nicole. Kittie Bruneau. Saint-Jérôme, Québec: Centre d'exposition du Vieux-Palais, 1999.
- 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- Bruneau, Kittie. D'îles et d'ailes (lithographies de Kittie Bruneau ; texts, Leonard Cohen, Jacques Renaud, Claude Haeffely, Michaël La Chance) Montreal, Quebec: Editions de la Marotte, 1980
- Bruneau, Kittie. Jusqu'au plomb. Montreal, Quebec: Editions du Chiendent, 1976
- Bruneau, Kittie. Mémoire animale: Six eaux-fortes originales de Kittie Bruneau (texte de Serge Gilbert). Montreal, Quebec: Éditions de la Guilde graphique, 1969
- Bruneau, Kittie. Terres d'exil. Montreal, Quebec: Productions imagique, 1995
- Bruneau, Kittie, Gilbert Serge. Mémoire animale: six eaux-fortes originales de Kittie Bruneau. Montreal: ?, 1969
