Charlevoix Landscape
Marc-Aurèle Fortin therefore advocates the national art of the French-Canadian terroir. Like his predecessors such as Suzor-Coté and Clarence Gagnon, Fortin painted the habitat rather than the inhabitant. He wanted to paint rurality beyond the Quebec climate. Moreover, Marc-Aurèle Fortin affirmed this: "So I invented green trees. I said: There is something other than snow in the province of Quebec."1
Fortin's nature was that of the countryside and agricultural activity. According to Fortin, the national identity passed through this rather than through the wild nature of the great virgin spaces. For an artist who clings to this vision of nationalism and its traditions.
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Charlevoix Landscape
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Gallery
Cosner Art Gallery Ritz - Carlton Montreal
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Medium
Watercolor
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Time
Canadian landscape painter
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Dimensions
61 x 73,6 cm | 24'' x 29''
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Dimensions with frame
76,2 x 93,9 cm | 30'' x 37''
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Signed
Signed lower left
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Canoeist
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Scene of Hochelaga, C. 1927
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Montreal , le port, c. 1928
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Port of Montreal, c.1928-30
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Sur les routes du Québec, Ile d'Orleans, c. 1939
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Laurentians, c. 1920
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Gros arbre à Ste-Rose
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Fall in Ste-Rose, c. 1925
Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888 - 1970)
Fall