Jean Palardy
{{Short description|French-Canadian artist (1905–1991)}}
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Jean Palardy {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|GOQ|size=100%}} (1905{{snd}}November 28, 1991){{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jean Palardy |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12975751g |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=1 October 2022 |language=French |date=}} was a French-Canadian painter, art historian, ethnologist and filmmaker.
Biography
Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Palardy moved with his family to Canada as a child in 1908, one of eight children. He was educated at Collège Saint-Laurent and the séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse,{{cite web |title=Jean Palardy : Grand officier (1992)|url=http://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/membres/membre.asp?id=49|website=Ordre national du Québec}} before studying at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal. He married painter Jori Smith in 1930.
Palardy and Smith were both members of the League for Social Reconstruction, with his interest in French Canadian rural life influenced by his political beliefs. Artist Jack Humphrey stayed with Palardy and his wife, Jori Smith, while living briefly in Montreal, with the three of them in poverty, supporting themselves during the winter of 1933 by painting matchboxes.{{cite book|last1=Niergarth|first1=Kirk|title=The Dignity of Every Human Being: New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War|date=2015|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9781442613898|pages=129|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNfTBgAAQBAJ&q=Jean+Palardy&pg=PA129|accessdate=7 June 2017|language=en}}
He was responsible for the interior design of the {{ill|Hôtel Le Chantecler|fr}} in Quebec's Laurentian region in 1939.
He joined the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1941 and over 19 years directed a number of short films there including The Rising Tide, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject at the 22nd Academy Awards.
In 1963, he wrote his influential book on French Canadian design, Les Meubles anciens du Canada français, for which he received a grant from the Canada Council.
Palardy consulted on the restoration of the vessel Grande Hermine as well as that of the Fortress of Louisbourg.{{cite book|last1=Veyron|first1=Michel|title=Dictionnaire canadien des noms propres|date=1989|publisher=Larousse|location=[Montréal]|isbn=2-920318-06-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dictionnairecana0000veyr/page/520 520–521]|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionnairecana0000veyr/page/520}} In 1975, he started restorations on the Jacques Cartier house. He also consulted for number of museums including the château Ramezay, McCord Museum, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec{{cite web|url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600000175|title=Jean Palardy|website=www.collections.mnbaq.org|accessdate=18 January 2020}} and the David M. Stewart Museum.
His paintings are in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/831 |website=www.mbam.qc.ca |publisher=MMFA |access-date=20 November 2024}} and elsewhere.
Filmography
= as director =
- 1947 - {{ill|Métropole (film)|fr|lt=Métropole}}
- 1949 - The Rising Tide
- 1951 - Oyster Man
- 1951 - The Wind-Swept Isles (Îles-de-la-Madeleine)
- 1952 - The Bird Fancier (L'Homme aux oiseaux)
- 1954 - Sorel
- 1954 - Bush Doctor
- 1954 - Artist in Montreal (On the Spot series){{cite book|last1=Robertson|first1=Clive|title=Policy Matters: Administrations of Art and Culture|date=2006|publisher=YYZ Books|isbn=9780920397367|pages=166|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jw_ksZ2hK1MC&q=Jean+Palardy&pg=PA166|accessdate=6 June 2017|language=en}}
- 1955 - Two Countries, One Street
- 1955 - Soirée de chantiers
- 1955 - The Lumberjack
- 1955 - Eye Witness No. 71
- 1955 - Chantier coopératif
- 1956 - Designed for Living
- 1956 - Agronomy
- 1957 - Carnival in Quebec
- 1958 - Trans Canada Summer
- 1959 - Correlieu
= as screenwriter =
- 1949 {{ill|Le Gros Bill|fr|Le Gros Bill (film)}}
- 1954 Sorel
- 1954 Bush Doctor
- 1955 Soirée de chantiers
= as cinematographer=
- 1955 Soirée de chantiers
- 1955 Eye Witness No. 71
= as producer =
- 1955 Soirée de chantiers
Honours
- Officer, Order of Canada (1967){{cite web |title=Jean Palardy, O.C., G.O.Q.|url=http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=1280&t=12&ln=Palardy|website=Le gouverneur général du Canada|accessdate=22 October 2011}}
- Certificate of merit, Canadian Historical Association (1975)
- Grand Officier, National Order of Quebec (1992, posthumously)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0657380}}
- [http://www.cinemaparlantquebec.ca/Cinema1930-52/pages/textbio/Textbio.jsp?textBioId=46&lang=en Biography], Quebec in Cinema
- [https://www.nfb.ca/directors/jean-palardy/?language=all Watch films directed by Jean Palardy] at the National Film Board of Canada
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Category:20th-century Canadian painters
Category:Canadian male painters
Category:Canadian art historians
Category:Film directors from Quebec
Category:National Film Board of Canada people
Category:Officers of the Order of Canada
Category:Grand Officers of the National Order of Quebec
Category:People from Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Category:École des beaux-arts de Montréal alumni
Category:Canadian ethnologists
Category:Canadian documentary film directors
Category:American emigrants to Canada
Category:20th-century Canadian male artists
Category:Directors of Genie Award winners for Best Theatrical Short