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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

Jean Paul Lemieux
Québec (Québec, Canada), 1904 – 1990
Training
  • Studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1926 to 1934.
Artistic production
  • His first works depicted daily life through portraits and familiar landscapes of Québec City and its environs.
  • His style became simpler and more refined. The spaces opened up to make way for the horizon. The resulting atmosphere is one of solitude, a contemplative silence vis-à-vis the vastness of Canada’s wide open spaces.
Alongside his artistic career
  • Taught at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in 1934 and, one year later, at the École du meuble de Montréal.
  • Became the drawing and painting professor at the École des beaux-arts de Québec in 1937. Taught there until his retirement in 1967.
Of note
  • In 1967, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presented a major retrospective of his work, which then travelled to Québec City and Ottawa.
  • In 1974, the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec sent an exhibition of his work to tour Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Paris.
Feature
  • Illustrated Gabrielle Roy’s novel La petite poule d’eau.