Stained-glass window by Marcelle Ferron, at Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal

Marcelle Ferron (January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001), a Québécoise painter and stained glass artist, was a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1235 × 926 pixel, file size: 240 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) groundfloor of the Metro Champs-de-Mars File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1235 × 926 pixel, file size: 240 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) groundfloor of the Metro Champs-de-Mars File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not... January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Québécois in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For building painting, see painter and decorator. ... Strictly speaking, stained glass is glass that has been painted with silver stain and then fired. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ...

Jacques Ferron, a famous Quebec writer, is her elder brother, while Madeleine Ferron, another writer, is also their sister. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Madeleine Ferron (born July 24, 1922 in Trois-Rivières) is a Canadian writer. ...

Born in Louiseville (Mauricie), Quebec, she was an early member of Paul-Émile Borduas's Automatistes art movement. She signed the manifesto Refus global, a watershed event in the Quebec cultural scene, in 1948. Louiseville is a city of 7,600 people located in Maskinongé Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. ... Mauricie is a traditional and current administrative region of Quebec. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 - February 22, 1960) was a Canadian painter known for his abstract paintings. ... Les Automatistes were a group of Quebecois artistic dissidents from Montreal, Quebec. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...

In 1953 she moved to Paris, where she worked for thirteen years in drawing and painting and was introduced to the art of stained glass, for which she would become best known. 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

One of her most famous stained-glass windows is at Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal. It was one of the first non-figurative works to be installed in the metro, in defiance of the didactic style present in other works of the period, and signaled a major shift in public art in Montreal between the policies of then-art director Robert Lapalme and future art director and fellow Automatiste Jean-Paul Mousseau. Other of her works can be seen at Vendôme metro station, Hôpital Sainte-Justine, and the ICAO headquarters, in Montreal; the Place du Portage in Gatineau, Quebec; and the Granby, Quebec courthouse. Champ-de-Mars is a station on the Montreal Metro Orange Line. ... Place-Saint-Henri station The Montreal Metro is the main form of public transportation within the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Nickname: City of Mary (Ville-Marie) Motto: Concordia Salus (salvation through harmony) Coordinates: Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1] [2] [3]  - City 365. ... Jean-Paul Mousseau (January 1, 1927-February 7, 1991) was a student of Paul-Émile Borduas and a member of the Automatist school of Quebec artists. ... The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an agency of the United Nations, develops the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. ... Motto: Ursus super montem ivit Area: 342. ... For the township see Granby, Quebec (township) Granby is a city in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal on Lac Boivin. ...

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Marcelle Ferron

She was awarded the 1983 Paul-Émile-Borduas medal for the visual arts by the government of Quebec. [1] In 1985 she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec and was promoted to Grand Officer in 2000. Image File history File links Wikiquote-logo-en. ... Wikiquote is a sister project of Wikipedia, using the same MediaWiki software. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Order of Quebec (French: Ordre national du Québec) is an order of merit bestowed by the government of Quebec, Canada. ...

She died in Montreal.

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External links

• Marcelle Ferron - Montreal by Metro

Marcelle Ferron, Untitled (1972). Stained glass. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.