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Marcelle FERRONEdmund ALLEYNMarcel BARBEAUPierre BLANCHETTEPierre de Ligny BOUDREAUPaul-Emile BORDUASUlysse COMTOISJean DALLAIREPaterson EWENHenriette FAUTEUX MASSECharles GAGNONPierre GAUVREAULise GERVAISGroup of SEVENJacques HURTUBISEJean LEFEBUREFernand LEDUCRita LETENDREAlexandra LUKEMarcelle MALTAISJean MCEWENJohn MEREDITHGuy MICHONGuido MOLINARIJean-Guy MONGEAUJean-Paul MOUSSEAUKazuo NAKAMURAJean-Paul RIOPELLEPLASTICIENSWilliam RONALDAnne SAVAGEJohn SCOTTMarian Dale SCOTTFrançois SOUCYClaude TOUSIGNANTHarold TOWNYork WILSONDavid URBAN

Rita LETENDRE

 ( 1928- )

Biography:     
Automatiste, Painter, Muralist, and Printmaker.

Born in Drummondville to a Quebecois mother and a father of Aboriginal origin, she is the eldest of a family of seven children. In 1941, she followed her parents to Montréal and took care of her brothers and sisters before working as a waitress and starting, at the age of 19, studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts. Close friends with Paul-Èmile Borduas and the automatiste group. The exhibition "La matière chante" in 1954, was a turning point for Letendre; it made her known in the art world and she went on to become one of Canada's most important abstract painters.

Exhibitions:
1952-53 Groupe Automatiste, Montreal
1954 La Matière Chante, Montreal
1955 Espace 55, Montreal L'Echourie, Montreal
1956 Galerie L'Actuelle, Montreal
1957 Parma Gallery, NYC
1959 Aspects of Canadian Painting, NYC; Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montreal
1961 Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal
1963 Tate Gallery, London
1964 Galerie Arnaud, Paris
1966 Agnes Lefort, Montreal
1970 RCA, National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1973 Musée du Québec, PQ; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris
1989 Concordia Art Gallery
1992 National Gallery of Canada, travelling exhibition.
2003 Musée du Québec, PQ

Collections:

• The National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Montréal
• Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal
• Musée du Québec, PQ
• Musée d'art de Joliette, PQ
• Art Gallery of Vancouver
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• Carleton University, Ottawa
• Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto
• Long Beach Museum of Fine Arts, California
• Embassy of Canada, Rio de Janeiro

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