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| Stained-glass window by Marcelle Ferron, at Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal |
Marcelle Ferron ( January 29, 1924- November 19, 2001), a Québécoise painter and stained glass artist, was a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene.
Born in Louiseville, Quebec , she was an early member of Paul-Émile Borduas's Automatistes art movement. She signed the manifesto Refus global, a watershed event in the Quebec cultural scene, in 1948.
In 1953 she moved to Paris, where she worked for thirteen years in drawing and painting and was introduced to the art of stained glass, for which she would become best known.
One of her most famous stained-glass windows is at Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal. It was one of the first non-figurative works to be installed in the metro, in defiance of the didactic style present in other works of the period, and signaled a major shift in public art in Montreal between the policies of then-art director Robert Lapalme and future art director and fellow Automatiste Jean-Paul Mousseau. Other of her works can be seen at Vendôme metro station, Hôpital Sainte-Justine, and the ICAO headquarters, in Montreal; the Place du Portage in Gatineau, QuebecGatineau ( 2001 census population 226,296) is a city in western Quebec, Canada. It is situated on the northern bank of the Ottawa River, immediately across from Ottawa, Ontario. Before January 1, 2002, there were five cities on the Quebec side of the Otta; and the Granby, QuebecGranby is a Ville (city) in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal on Lac Boivin. Granby is the seat of La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality. Population (2001 census) 44,121. Site of the Granby Zoo. Cities in Quebec. courthouse.
She was awarded the 1983Events January January 1 Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor January 1 the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. January 1 compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK. January 2 The mu Paul-Émile-Borduas medal for the visual arts by the government of Quebec. [1]
She died in Montreal.