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OIL ON BOARD - WORK 19.25 X 13.25 INCHES - FRAME 24 X 18 INCHES -
Title of painting: Bouctouche Train at Notre Dame Station 3 miles from home. Where painted: At home south side Cocagne, NB, Oil Varnish record: Dec 18, 1976. Artis: Leo B Leblanc. Address: RR1 Cocagne NB. Art society affiliations: Moncton Art Society. Exhibition record: Art Bank Ottawa. Art Bank Fredericton NB. Prices won: Olympic Montréal 1976.
About the Artist:
Léo B. LeBlanc,Acadian artist (September 15th, 1914 - May 14th, 1986) Born in Moncton New Brunswick, In 1918, the LeBlanc family settled on a farm in Notre-Dame in Kent County. After primary school, Léo took on many jobs before giving most of his time to painting. He started by working on his father's farmland, and then, like many other Acadians before him, he went to work in the bush. In 1972, Léo began to paint. Léo LeBlanc's paintings, just like the artist's life itself, is disarming in its simplicity. Little white houses with black roofs, small little people, a few animals, mostly horses, cows and dogs, a few trucks and tractors: these are what populate his landscapes, often squashed under the low sky of the Cocagne area. In spite of this simplicity of style, Léo was able to capture the soul of the ordinary Acadian people who lived and still live in this corner of the world. Despite Léo LeBlanc's short painting career, a career which lasted only thirteen years, he achieved a certain celebrity which could be the envy of many professional artists. He was interviewed on radio and television. Articles were published on this artist-farmer in newspapers and magazines as well-known as Vie des Arts ("Art Life"). His work has been shown across Canada, from British Columbia to Nova Scotia. Some of his work is part of the Canada Council collection and is found at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and at the Musée des beaux-arts ("Museum of Fine Arts") in Sherbrooke, Québec. One of his winter scenes was acquired by the Musée d'art naïf ("Museum of Folk Art") d'île-de-France in Paris. Léo LeBlanc, painter of the simple and the serene, was a folk artist who knew how to allow himself to be loved and touched by all those who had the pleasure of knowing him.
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