Clarence Alphonse Gagnon Art

An intimate painting of sea, cliffs and sky in turquoise and marine blue of the Norwegian fjord. It is an immediate and likely en plein air painting that, given the lack of foreground land, may have been created from a boat. The work distills Gagnon’s frequent composition of valleys, mountains, vivid colors, sinuous lines. Clarence Alphonse Gagnon, R.C.A., was a French Canadian painter, engraver and illustrator well known for his landscape paintings of the Laurentians and eastern Quebec. Gagnon trained and maintained a studio in Paris for much of his career and met and sketched with other Canadian painters including James Wilson Maurice. Before and after WWI, Gagnon moved between Canada, France, and Norway. In 1923, Gagnon received the Trevor Prize of the Salmagundi Club of New York. Between 1924 and 1936, Gagnon spent time in Paris and traveled throughout Europe. It was during this period that he illustrated a number of books, including Rouquette’s Le grand silence blanc...

Rue des Petits Degres is a short, stepped alleyway in the walled port city of Saint-Malo in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. In this monochrome black/sepia etching of the ancient street, a cat in a doorway and four figures mark the receding perspective up the stairs towards the distant smoking chimneys of this city in 1907. Clarence Alphonse Gagnon, R.C.A., was a French Canadian painter, engraver and illustrator well known for his book illustrations and landscape paintings of eastern Quebec. Gagnon trained and maintained a studio in Paris for much of his career and met and sketched with other Canadian painters including James Wilson Maurice. Before and after WWI, Gagnon moved between Canada, France, and Norway. In 1923, Gagnon received the Trevor Prize of the Salmagundi Club of New York. Between 1924 and 1936, Gagnon spent time in Paris and traveled throughout Europe. It was during this period that he illustrated a number of books, including Rouquette’s Le grand silence blanc...

Rugged snow covered mountains in Villars, Switzerland. This oil on panel work is certified by Lucile Rodier Gagnon (no 457) on the reverse. Born in a small Quebec village in 1881, Gagnon travelled to Europe to study in Paris in 1905. He painted with James Morrice...