Hugh LeRoy
{{Short description|Canadian sculptor}}
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| birth_name = Hugh Alexander Cote LeRoy
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|10|09}}
| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| death_date = January 5, 2022
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| movement = constructivist art
| awards = Perspectives 67' first prize
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| field = Sculpture
| training = Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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Hugh LeRoy (born October 9, 1939) is a Canadian constructivist art sculptor.
Career
LeRoy was born in Montreal, Quebec.{{Cite web|title=Hugh LeRoy|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/search-the-collection?search_api_views_fulltext=hugh%20LeRoy&sort_by=search_api_relevance&f%5B0%5D=field_reference_artist%253Atitle%3AHugh%20LeRoy|website=www.gallery.ca|access-date=2017-01-04}} He studied with Alfred Pinsky at the art school of Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University). He went on to study as well at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, School of Art and Design with Arthur Lismer and Louis Dudek.{{cite web |url=http://vaah.ampd.yorku.ca/profile/hugh-leroy/|title=Hugh LeRoy : Visual Art & Art History |website=vaah.ampd.yorku.ca |publisher=York University, Toronto |access-date=2021-12-26}} He was named director of the museum school in 1967.{{Cite web|url=http://dictionnaire.espaceartactuel.com/en/artistes/leroy-hugh-a-1939/|title=LEROY, Hugh A. (1939)|website=Dictionnaire historique de la sculpture québécoise au XXe siècle|access-date=2017-01-04}} By 1967, he was creating shapes
under stress as he explained during a taped interview with Dorothy Cameron:
"I...enjoy making things, useless things, which happen now to fit into a social scheme or way of life called 'contemporary art' by our fickle culture assessors. That is why I am against intellectualizing about art, especially about minimal art or sculpture, where such an elaborate framework of justification is demanded....I began a private search for fundamental truth.".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
His work is in the Constructivist art style and has been installed in numerous locations across Canada. Four Elements Column (1967) is located in René-Lévesque Park in Lachine, Quebec. Rainbow Piece (1972), is permanently located outside Scott Library at York University, Toronto.{{cite web|url=http://www.yorku.ca/agyu/exhibitions/sculpture_leroy.html|title=Welcome to the Art Gallery of York University|publisher=}} He participated in the 1976 exhibition Trois générations d’art québécois 1940-1950-1960 at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal with Red Piece, an abstract, linear sculpture of painted aluminum. The Arc & The Chord (1987) was located in the Toronto Sculpture Garden for a period of two months.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/mocca-sculpture-garden-nuit-blanche/article26568761/|title=Toronto Sculpture Garden makes a comeback with installation for Nuit Blanche – and beyond|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|access-date=2017-01-04}} In 1967, LeRoy was awarded First Prize at the Perspectives 67 competition for sculpture.
He is a professor emeritus at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Sculptures
File:Four_Elements_Column_-_Hugh_LeRoy_-_05.JPG|Four Elements Column
File:Four_Elements_Column_-_Hugh_LeRoy_-_01.JPG|Four Elements Column, description
File:York Outdoor Art.jpg|Rainbow Piece (1972)
References
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External links
- [http://ccca.concordia.ca/history/dorothy_cameron/english/leroy.html?languagePref=en& "Hugh LeRoy."] The CCCA Canadian Art Database.
- Feeny, E. .[http://www.gettyimages.ca/license/502534023 "Something for 'the archer' to shoot at?"] Toronto Star.
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Category:20th-century Canadian sculptors
Category:Canadian male sculptors
Category:20th-century Canadian male artists