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The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec is funded by the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec.

  
Collections
Selected works from 1900 to 2000

Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Sainte-Rose (Québec, Canada), 1888 – Macamic (Québec, Canada), 1970
Training
  • Studied at the École du Plateau under Ludger Larose and took night courses at the Monument national.
  • Attended the Chicago Art Institute from 1908 to 1914.
Artistic production
  • Very prolific painter-engraver-watercolorist.
  • Immortalized Québec landscapes in multicoloured luminosity.
  • His artistic quest led him to a personal, innovative style unlike any other.
Feature
  • Painted on anything within reach: cigarette cartons, cotton sugar bags, curtains, pressed wood panels, sheet metal, plywood, linoleum.
Of note
  • He suffered from diabetes and had to have a leg amputated in 1955. The surgery demoralized him and hastened the end of his career.