Marcelle Ferron

Marcelle Ferron ( January 29 , 1924 - November 19 , 2001 ), a Québécoise painter and stained glass artist, was a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene.

Born in Louiseville, Quebec , she was an early member of Paul-Émile Borduas 's Automatistes artmovement. She signed the manifesto Refus global, a watershed event in the Quebec cultural scene, in 1948 .

In 1953 she moved to Paris, where she worked for thirteen years in drawing and paintingand was introduced to the art of stained glass, for which she would become best known.

One of her most famous stained-glass windows is at Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal . It was one of the firstnon-figurative works to be installed in the metro, in defiance of the didactic style present in other works of the period, andsignaled a major shift in public art in Montreal between the policies of then-art director Robert Lapalme and future artdirector and fellow Automatiste Jean-Paul Mousseau . Other ofher works can be seen at Vendôme metro station, Hôpital Sainte-Justine, and the ICAO headquarters, in Montreal; the Place du Portage in Gatineau,Quebec ; and the Granby, Quebec courthouse.

She was awarded the 1983 Paul-Émile-Borduas medal for the visual arts by the governmentof Quebec. [1]

She died in Montreal.

See List of Quebecois