Mariette Rousseau-Vermette
Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, OC (August 29, 1926 - March 28, 2006)[1] was a noted Quebec-based Canadian tapestry artist who pioneered innovations in the fibre/textile arts during the 1960's through 1980's.
Rousseau-Vermette was born Trois-Pistoles, Quebec and studied art in the late 1940's at the l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Quebec, with Dorothy Liebes and at the Oakland College of Arts and Crafts in California, and privately throughout Europe and Asia.
She created tapestries that experimented with scale, form, material and color, that became known as tapestry-paintings. In addition to appearing in numerous solo and group exhibitions, she became internationally recognized when she received several prestigious commissions, including the curtain for the Eisenhower Theatre in Washington's Kennedy Center, and the ceiling of Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Some of her estimated 600 signed works are held in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Rockefeller Center in New York, and the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto.[2][3][4]
She was head of the Fibre program at The Banff Centre from 1979-1985.
Rousseau-Vermette was married to the artist Claude Vermette. She died in Montreal in 2006.
Awards
- Officer of the Order of Canada (1976)
- Diplome d'Honneur from the Canadian Conference of the Arts.
References
- ↑ "Mariette Rousseau-Vermette". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ Alfoldy, Sandra (2005-01-01). Crafting identity: the development of professional fine craft in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0773528601.
- ↑ NEWLANDS, ANNE (2011-01-01). "Mariette Rousseau-Vermette: Journey of a Painter-weaver from the 1940s through the 1960s". jcanaarthist Journal of Canadian Art History / Annales d'histoire de l'art Canadien 32 (2): 74–107. ISSN 0315-4297.
- ↑ Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy (1995-01-01). North American women artists of the twentieth century: a biographical dictionary. New York: Garland. ISBN 0824060490.