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Marcelle Ferron, GOQ RCA (January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001), a Canadian Québécoise painter and stained glass artist, was one of the original 16 signatories of Paul-Émile Borduas's Refus global manifesto, and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene, associated with the Automatistes.[1]

Marcelle Ferron
Born	(1924-01-29)January 29, 1924 Louiseville (Mauricie), Quebec, Canada
Died	November 19, 2001(2001-11-19) (aged 77) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Resting place	Mount Royal Cemetery
Known for	stained glass artist, painter
Movement	Automatistes
Spouse	René Hamelin

Life and work

Ferron was born in Louiseville, Quebec on January 29, 1924. Her brother Jacques Ferron and her sister Madeleine Ferron were both writers. She studied at the École des beaux-arts de Québec before dropping out, unsatisfied with the way the school's instructors addressed modern art.[2]

Ferron 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.[3]

In 1953, she moved to Paris, where she worked for 13 years in drawing and painting and was introduced to the art of stained glass, for which she would become best known.[4] Ferron returned in 1966 to Quebec, where she worked exclusively with stained glass for the next two decades.

One of her stained-glass windows is at Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal, Quebec. 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 signalled 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 examples of her works can be seen at Vendôme metro station, Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine, and the ICAO headquarters, in Montreal; the Place du Portage in Gatineau, Quebec; and the Granby, Quebec courthouse.

In 1983, she was awarded the Paul-Émile-Borduas prize for the visual arts by the government of Quebec.[5] In 1985, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec and was promoted to Grand Officer in 2000. She also was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[6]

She died in Montreal.

A nursing home in Brossard, Quebec, the Centre d'Accueil Marcelle-Ferron, is named after her.[7] On 7 September 2019, Google honoured Ferron with a “google doodle” to mark the anniversary of the unveiling of her installation in Montreal's Vendôme station.[8]

References

External links

• Marcelle Ferron - Montreal by Metro
• Stealing the show : seven women artists in Canadian public art

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[fr] Marcelle Ferron

Marcelle Ferron, née le 29 janvier 1924 à Louiseville et décédée le 19 novembre 2001 à Montréal, est une artiste peintre québécoise. Figure importante sur la scène de l’art contemporain du Québec, elle s'est spécialisée au cours de sa carrière dans le vitrail.

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