Biography
Marc-Aurèle Fortin was born in 1888 in Ste-Rose, Quebec. He studied art in Montreal under Ludger Larose and Edmond Dyonnet, and at the Art Institute of Chicago under Edward J. Timmons. After a trip to England and France in the 1920s he began to work seriously as a painter, producing work depicting the island of Montreal and his birthplace Sainte-Rose. Fortin was also known for painting watercolour landscapes of the St. Lawrence Valley, where he travelled around by bicycle. Fortin had Numerous international exhibitions, held solo exhibitions at the Musee du Quebec (1944), in Almelo, Netherlands (1948), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1954), and at the National gallery of Canada (1963), a bronze medal at the New York World’s Fair (1939), and was as Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy. Fortin died in 1970.
