1. Henri Julien was a Canadian artist and cartoonist noted for his work for the Canadian Illustrated News and for his political cartoons in the Montreal Daily Star.
16 Facts About Henri Julien
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Henri Julien was the first full-time newspaper editorial cartoonist in Canada.
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Octave-Henri Julien was born in Quebec City on 14 May 1852 to Henri and Zoe Julien and grew up in the Saint-Roch neighbourhood.
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Henri Julien's father worked as a turner for a mechanical press and his brothers Emile and Telesphore went on to work in printing.
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Early influences on Julien include caricatures by the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Cote, who lived nearby among the artisans of saint-Roche, and the country folk of nearby L'Ange-Gardien who inspired many of Julien's later drawings.
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Henri Julien thereafter moved to Montreal where he apprenticed as an engraver at Leggo and Company, a partnership between William Leggo and George-Edouard Desbarats, where he met cartoonists such as Edward Jump who worked for Desbarats's illustrated magazines Canadian Illustrated News and L'Opinion publique.
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Henri Julien's work included caricatures of politicians and illustrated journalism.
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Henri Julien spent six months in New York in 1888; upon his return to Canada the same year he became artistic director at the Montreal Daily Star, which thus became the first Canadian newspaper to employ a full-time editorial cartoonist.
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Henri Julien stayed with the paper for 22 years and built his reputation illustrating historical even and journalistic pieces, as well as drawing caricatures of members of Parliament in the House of Commons in Ottawa.
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Henri Julien's best known work was of rural French Canadians which he started making about 1875 and continued for the rest of his life.
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Henri Julien's works appeared in exhibitions at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1899 and 1907 and at the Salon of the Art Association of Montreal in 1908.
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Henri Julien drew with speed and accuracy and attracted note for his skill at capturing expressions and gestures.
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Henri Julien illustrated the annual L'Almanach du peuple and his work appeared in other Canadian publications such as John Wilson Bengough's Grip, Desbarats's Dominion Illustrated, Favourite, Jester, Canard, and Grelot, as well as foreign publications such as the American Harper's Weekly, the British The Graphic, and the French Le Monde illustre and L'Illustration.
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Henri Julien had just left the Montreal Star in apparent good health with his son.
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Le Vieux de '37 is the name under which is known an illustration by Henri Julien created in approximately 1880 to illustrate Le vieux patriote, a poem from Louis Frechette.
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The Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec holds the most important collection of Henri Julien's work, including La Chasse-galerie, Henri Julien's best-known painting, inspired by a French-Canadian legend about a flying canoe.