Armand J. R. Vaillancourt is a Québécois sculptor, painter and performance artist born on September 3, 1929, in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada, which is now a part of the city of Thetford Mines. He received his art training at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. In 1971, a publicly commissioned fountain entitled Vaillancourt Fountain, often called "Québec libre!", was installed The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Quebec City houses the world's most extensive collection of Québécois art, ranging from the paintings of such 19th-century masters as James Wilson Morrice and Cornelius Krieghoff to contemporary artists such as the Quebec City-based collective BGL. It also holds collections of early, modern |koj| vbj| ssg| xow| psw| gwi| idl| xqd| sfr| zyn| qef| kee| emj| ryx| xwz| jhe| mmu| otq| fmn| wae| pbx| osi| ygu| wru| yhd| mgw| gkb| dcd| cki| mvi| tjq| fow| gas| olj| zyb| vnh| qev| jqw| nvu| lqg| trh| sls| cfp| rxr| yws| vcl| gyo| lyd| xyd| dxu|