Louise Landry Gadbois
{{Short description|Canadian painter (1896–1985)}}
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| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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| death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Louise Landry Gadbois (27 November 1896 – 10 August 1985) was a Canadian painter associated with the Contemporary Arts Society in Montreal. She is known for her portraiture.{{cite web|title=Gadbois, Louise Landry|url=https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=20|website=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative|accessdate=25 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031018/https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=20|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Louise Gadbois|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/louise-gadbois|website=National Gallery of Canada|accessdate=27 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040756/https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/louise-gadbois|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=live}}
Biography
Marie Marguerite Louise Gadbois was born on 27 November 1896 in Montreal, Quebec. She studied painting with Edwin Holgate from 1932 to 1934. Additionally she attended the Art Association of Montreal, studying under John Goodwin Lyman.
In 1941, Gadbois was included in the Première exposition des Indépendants exhibition at Palais Montcalm in Quebec City. This exhibition was organized by Marie-Alain Couturier and included eleven members of the Contemporary Arts Society; Gadbois, Paul-Émile Borduas, Simone Mary Bouchard, Stanley Cosgrove, Eric Goldberg, John Goodwin Lyman, Louis Muhlstock, Alfred Pellan, Goodridge Roberts, Jori Smith, and Philip Surrey.{{cite book|last1=Carney|first1=Lora Senechal|title=Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925–1955: Writings and Reconsiderations|date=2017|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0773551923|pages=146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-EyDwAAQBAJ&q=Louise+Gadbois&pg=PA173|accessdate=25 November 2017}} The exhibition traveled to Montreal.
In 1944, Gadbois was in two exhibitions: a joint exhibition with Philip Surrey, and a joint exhibition with her daughter Denyse Gadbois.
Gadbois's portrait of Thérèse Frémont is in the National Gallery of Canada{{cite web|title=Louise Gadbois|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/louise-gadbois|website=National Gallery of Canada|accessdate=25 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040756/https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/louise-gadbois|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=live}} and her portrait The Refugee is in the Musée du Québec.{{cite web|title=Louise Gadbois 1896 – 1985|url=https://www.legrandrappel.org/gadbois-louise.html|website=Le Grand Rappel|accessdate=25 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201033212/https://www.legrandrappel.org/gadbois-louise.html|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=live}}
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External links
- [http://www.artnet.com/artists/louise-gadbois/ Louise Landry Gadbois images] on ArtNet
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Category:20th-century Canadian artists
Category:Painters from Montreal
Category:20th-century Canadian painters