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Denyse Gadbois (1921 – 2013) was a Canadian artist and professor who worked in painting, mural art and sculpture.

Career

Gadbois was born in Montreal and studied at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1944) with Goodridge Roberts and then in Paris at the Académie Julian. She returned to Canada and in 1945 won a prize for figure painting at the Quebec Provincial Competition. In 1947, she exhibited Girl in Blue at the Riverside Museum, New York in a show entitled "Exhibition of Canadian Women Painters".

Besides painting, she created a series of large murals for the Dominion Textile Company. Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

References

1. ^ "Gadbois, Denyse". Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on 9 November 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
2. "Gadbois, Denyse (1921-2013)". Dictionnaire Historique (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
3. "Gadbois, Denyse". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. 19 July 2022. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
4. ^ A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
5. "Denyse Gadbois". National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2022.

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