Janine Leroux-Guillaume

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Janine Leroux-Guillaume
Born1927 (1927)
Saint-Hermas, Quebec, Canada
Died(2018-01-30)January 30, 2018
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Known forMaster printer
SpousePierre Guillaume

Janine Leroux-Guillaume (1927 – 30 January 2018) was a Canadian master printer[1] and worked in other media including painting, collage and sculpture.[2]

Career

Leroux-Guillaume was born in Saint-Hermas, Quebec, and studied engraving at the School of Graphic Arts in Montreal and at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal with Madame Charlebois and Albert Dumouchel. She graduated from the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in 1954.[3]

Afterwards, Leroux-Guillaume travelled in Europe and studied at the Atelier Lacourière in Paris in 1959. She exhibited her work in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, in 1960 and at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, also at Winnipeg, Hamilton, and Toronto.

Leroux-Guillaume also illustrated poetry books. In 1964 she received a scholarship from the Department of Education of Quebec.[3] Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[4] the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec[1] and McMaster University in Hamilton.[3] She taught plastic arts for the Catholic School Commission for a number of years also engraving at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal.[3]

Leroux-Guillaume died in Montreal, Quebec on 30 January 2018,[5] two days after the opening of a retrospective exhibition of her work at the Center d'art Diane-Dufresne, in Repentigny in 2018.[6][7]

References

  1. "Leroux-Guillaume, Janine". Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Archived from the original on 22 December 2025. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  2. "Leroux-Guillaume, Janine". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Concordia University. Retrieved 22 December 2025 – via Airtable.
  3. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
  4. "Janine Leroux-Guillaume". National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  5. "Artist/Maker name "Leroux-Guillaume, Janine"". Artists in Canada. Government of Canada. 19 November 2024 [13 March 1985]. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  6. "Décès de l'artiste Janine Leroux Guillaume" [Death of artist Janine Leroux Guillaume]. Le Devoir (in French). 1 February 2018. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  7. "Décès du maître-graveur Janine Leroux Guillaume" [Death of master printer Janine Leroux Guillaume]. Ville de Repentigny (in French). Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 22 December 2025.