City history: Adrien Hébert
The Journal looks at Adrien Hébert (1890-1967), a painter who created some fascinating views of Montreal in the 1920s and 1930s.
I’ve had a look in Lovell to find out where the Hyman tobacconist storefront was, as shown in the article, but the company had several locations along Ste‑Catherine as well as in the Windsor and Mount Royal hotels.
Looking for Hébert’s Wikipedia article, I find he’s not on the English side at all, but the French Wikipedia has him, along with a reproduction of a nice painting of St‑Denis Street.
Max 13:20 on 2022-01-02 Permalink
Hébert’s pretty much my favourite Montreal painter. Westmount Library has a catalog that was produced for an exhibit of his work at the Museé du Québec in 1993. I don’t have a membership, but the library does have a scanner…
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZrFg8BIPc6qIBYUJ1sKpNU979g8NtWz6?usp=sharing
Kate 13:33 on 2022-01-02 Permalink
Thank you, Max.
Max 00:20 on 2022-01-03 Permalink
The luminosity of the sky in the St. Denis Street painting is just gorgeous.
Another Hébert piece is on display at the chalet on Mount Royal. “Jacques Cartier atterrit à Hochelaga en 1535”, over at the west end. It’s not one of the Port paintings of his that I so adore, but it’s still pretty damn nice.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableaux_historiques_du_Chalet_de_la_montagne_du_parc_du_Mont-Royal