Alice Nolin
Alice Nolin (1896 – 1967) was a Canadian artist and educator.
She was born in Sorel, Quebec. Nolin studied painting with William Brymner and continued her studies at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, studying with Charles Maillard, Emmanuel Fougerat and Alfred Laliberté. She worked under Alfred Laliberté in sculpture at the Monument-National. She also studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. In 1924, she won the Minister's Prize for sculpture at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. Nolin also exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and at the exhibitions of the Art Association of Montreal from 1921 to 1935.[1][2]
She taught at the École des Arts et Métiers at the Monument National from 1936 to 1946;[3] she also taught at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal.[2]
Nolin completed busts of Alfred Laliberté, Édouard Montpetit and Sir William Logan and a bas-relief of Charles Gill. She also created a bronze medallion for the tomb of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine in Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.[1][3][2]
She died in 1967, probably in Montreal.[2]
Four of her sculptures are held by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; another is held by the Musée d'art de Joliette.[2]
Rue Alice-Nolin in Montreal was named in her honour.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Nolin, Alice". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative.
- ^ a b c d e Karel, David (1992). Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfèvres (in French). p. 598. ISBN 2763772358.
- ^ a b "Nolin, Alice (1896-1967)". Historical Dictionary of Quebec Sculpture in the 20th Century.
- ^ "Rue Alice-Nolin" (in French). Commission de toponymie Québec.