1. Clarence Gagnon is known for his landscape paintings of the Laurentians and the Charlevoix region of eastern Quebec.
15 Facts About Clarence Gagnon
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Clarence Alphonse Gagnon was born in Montreal, Quebec on November 8,1881.
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Clarence Gagnon was the son of Alphonse E Gagnon, a milling manager, and a cultured English mother, who was interested in literature.
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Clarence Gagnon studied with William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal in 1897, the same year that Brymner delivered a lecture on Impressionism at the school.
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Clarence Gagnon showed his early promise by winning a bronze medal at the Canadian exhibition at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.
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In 1907, Clarence Gagnon returned to Canada, and settled in the Baie-Saint-Paul region of Charlevoix.
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Clarence Gagnon lived in France from 1917 to 1919, then returned to Canada, to Baie St Paul, Quebec.
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From 1919 to 1924, Clarence Gagnon took advantage of the newly accessible area, thanks in part to the recently constructed rail line connecting Montreal and Quebec City to Baie St Paul, and produced sketches, paintings and print works of the area.
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Clarence Gagnon was an illustrator and illustrated Louis-Frederic Rouquette's Le Grand silence blanc in 1929 and in 1933, Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hemon.
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Clarence Gagnon returned permanently to Canada in 1936, returning to his native Montreal, where he died on January 5,1942, at the Royal Victoria Hospital.
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Clarence Gagnon is buried at the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.
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When Clarence Gagnon died in 1942, his widow Lucile Rodier-Clarence Gagnon catalogued and numbered the 670-odd pochades she found in his Paris studio and their Montreal home.
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Clarence Gagnon's work is owned by collections outside Canada, including in England the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and the Manchester Art Gallery, in Argentina at the Fundacion Proa in Buenos Aires and in France the Petit Palais in Paris.
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Clarence Gagnon was a member of the Canadian Art Club and in 1922, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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In 1919 Clarence Gagnon married Lucile Rodier, a pupil of William Brymner.