Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Lake Brome, from "La Suite" Hotel
Alternate Title:
Lac Brome de La Suite québécoise
Image View:
Detail, Plexiglas panels with figures in front of a landscape painting of Lake Brome
Creator:
Edmund Alleyn (Canadian painter, 1931-2004)
Location:
repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2007.18
Location Note:
National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest; Pierre Lassonde Pavilion
GPS:
46.801106-71.225064
Date:
1973-1974 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Canadian
Style Period:
Photorealist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Work Type 2:
installation (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
acrylic paint on canvas and Plexiglas panels
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Measurements:
172 cm (height) x 310 cm (width, Plexiglas panels)
Subjects:
genre; human figure; landscape; vacationers; recreation areas; theme parks
Description:
Upon his return to Quebec after living 15 years in Paris, Alleyn embarked on a new series, Une belle fin de journée. This series is composed of paintings on canvas and of life-size figures painted on Plexiglas panels, standing in front of the paintings. The anonymous figures represent ordinary people captured by his camera, in various amusement parks around Montreal. (Source: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec [website]; www.mnbaq.org/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-ALLEYN-BLFS-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Lake Brome, from "La Suite" Hotel