Clarence Gagnon

Clarence Gagnon (Known as "Clarence Alphonse Gagnon")

Landscape Painter, Etcher, Master Illustrator of Maria Chapdelaine

Born 8 November 1881

Montreal, Canada

Passed Away 5 January 1942 Montreal, Canada

Lifespan 60 years old

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"Our Canadian winter is not dead white; it is saturated with violet, amber, and the deepest azure reflections."

Archival Overview

Celebrated Quebec painter and printmaker whose vibrant, jewel-like canvases captured the light, snow, and village life of Charlevoix.

Biographical Record

Clarence Alphonse Gagnon was an internationally admired French-Canadian painter and etcher. After training at the Monument National in Montreal and the Académie Julian in Paris, Gagnon made the village of Baie-Saint-Paul in Charlevoix his spiritual artistic home, capturing the undulating snowdrifts, timber cottages, and horse-drawn sleighs of traditional Quebec winter life.

His luminous palette and rejection of somber Academic shadows immortalized rural French Canada. Gagnon is especially renowned for creating fifty-four gouache illustrations for Louis Hémon's classic novel Maria Chapdelaine, hailed as masterpieces of Canadian book illustration.

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Final Resting Place

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Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery
Montreal, Canada

                         GPS: 45.5019, -73.6067                    

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