Background
Marc-Aurèle Fortin was born in 1888 in Ste-Rose, Quebec.
Marc-Aurèle Fortin was born in 1888 in Ste-Rose, Quebec.
He studied art in Montreal. He studied art abroad.
He worked at the Montreal Post Office and at an Edmonton bank. He was known for painting watercolour landscapes of the Saint Lawrence Valley. He travelled around the Saint Lawrence Valley by bicycle.
Fortin believed that "Canadian artists should take their inspiration from the countryside and progress towards a national art
We should excel in landscapes, exactly as the French do". Fortin was exhibited by Galerie L"Art français from the 1940s.
On 22 May 1981 Canada Post issued "Marc-Aurèle Fortin" designed by Pierre Fontaine in the Canadian Art series. The stamps are based on a painting "À la Baie Saint-Paul" (1937), by Marc-Aurèle Fortin in the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Quebec.
The 17¢ stamps are perforated 12.5 and were printed by Ashton-Potter Limited.
The electoral district Marc-Aurèle-Fortin is named in his honour. He was designated a National Historic Person by the federal environment minister, on advice of the national Historic Sites and Monuments Board. "Dimanche à l"Ile Sainte-Hélène", Musée du Québec, exhibition not dated.
"Collections d"Artistes", Place des Arts, Montreal, 1979;
"Esthétiques modernes", National Gallery of Canada, 1982, cat. northern
12, box northern 1;
Musée Marc-Aurèle, Exhibition 24-01-84 to 24-04-84, P-20;
Marc-Aurèle Fortin Retrospective Exhibition, Samir Sammoun, October 2003-January 2004
Marc-Aurèle Fortin Retrospective Exhibition, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, September 2006, northern 13. Marc-Aurèle Fortin, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, July 2011.
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]
He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts He died in 1970.