{{Short description|French-Canadian artist (1905–1991)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2019}}
'''Jean Palardy''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|GOQ|size=100%}} (1905{{snd}}November 28, 1991)<ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Jean Palardy |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12975751g |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=1 October 2022 |language=French |date=}}</ref> was a French-Canadian painter, art historian, ethnologist and filmmaker.
== Biography == Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Palardy moved with his family to Canada as a child in 1908, one of eight children. He was educated at Collège Saint-Laurent and the séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse,<ref name="ONQ">{{cite web |title=Jean Palardy : Grand officier (1992)|url=http://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/membres/membre.asp?id=49|website=Ordre national du Québec}}</ref> before studying at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal.<ref name=ONQ /> He married painter Jori Smith in 1930.
Palardy and Smith were both members of the League for Social Reconstruction, with his interest in French Canadian rural life influenced by his political beliefs. Artist Jack Humphrey stayed with Palardy and his wife, Jori Smith, while living briefly in Montreal, with the three of them in poverty, supporting themselves during the winter of 1933 by painting matchboxes.<ref name="Niergarth">{{cite book|last1=Niergarth|first1=Kirk|title=The Dignity of Every Human Being: New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War|date=2015|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9781442613898|pages=129|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNfTBgAAQBAJ&q=Jean+Palardy&pg=PA129|accessdate=7 June 2017|language=en}}</ref>
He was responsible for the interior design of the {{ill|Hôtel Le Chantecler|fr}} in Quebec's Laurentian region in 1939.<ref name="ONQ" />
He joined the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1941 and over 19 years directed a number of short films there including ''The Rising Tide'', which was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject at the 22nd Academy Awards.
In 1963, he wrote his influential book on French Canadian design, ''Les Meubles anciens du Canada français'', for which he received a grant from the Canada Council.
Palardy consulted on the restoration of the vessel ''Grande Hermine'' as well as that of the Fortress of Louisbourg.<ref name="Veyron">{{cite book|last1=Veyron|first1=Michel|title=Dictionnaire canadien des noms propres|date=1989|publisher=Larousse|location=[Montréal]|isbn=2-920318-06-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dictionnairecana0000veyr/page/520 520–521]|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionnairecana0000veyr/page/520}}</ref> In 1975, he started restorations on the Jacques Cartier house. He also consulted for number of museums including the château Ramezay, McCord Museum, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600000175|title=Jean Palardy|website=www.collections.mnbaq.org|accessdate=18 January 2020}}</ref> and the David M. Stewart Museum.<ref name=ONQ />
His paintings are in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/831 |website=www.mbam.qc.ca |publisher=MMFA |access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref> and elsewhere.
== Filmography== === as director === *1947 - ''{{ill|Métropole (film)|fr|lt=Métropole}}'' *1949 - ''The Rising Tide'' *1951 - ''Oyster Man'' *1951 - ''The Wind-Swept Isles (Îles-de-la-Madeleine)'' *1952 - ''The Bird Fancier (L'Homme aux oiseaux)'' *1954 - ''Sorel'' *1954 - ''Bush Doctor'' *1954 - ''Artist in Montreal'' (''On the Spot'' series)<ref name="Robertson">{{cite book|last1=Robertson|first1=Clive|title=Policy Matters: Administrations of Art and Culture|date=2006|publisher=YYZ Books|isbn=9780920397367|pages=166|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jw_ksZ2hK1MC&q=Jean+Palardy&pg=PA166|accessdate=6 June 2017|language=en}}</ref> *1955 - ''Two Countries, One Street'' *1955 - ''Soirée de chantiers'' *1955 - ''The Lumberjack'' *1955 - ''Eye Witness No. 71'' *1955 - ''Chantier coopératif'' *1956 - ''Designed for Living'' *1956 - ''Agronomy'' *1957 - ''Carnival in Quebec'' *1958 - ''Trans Canada Summer'' *1959 - ''Correlieu''
=== as screenwriter === *1949 ''{{ill|Le Gros Bill|fr|Le Gros Bill (film)}}'' *1954 ''Sorel'' *1954 ''Bush Doctor'' *1955 ''Soirée de chantiers''
=== as cinematographer=== *1955 ''Soirée de chantiers'' *1955 ''Eye Witness No. 71''
=== as producer === *1955 ''Soirée de chantiers''
== Honours == * Officer, Order of Canada (1967)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jean Palardy, O.C., G.O.Q.|url=http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=1280&t=12&ln=Palardy|website=Le gouverneur général du Canada|accessdate=22 October 2011}}</ref> * Certificate of merit, Canadian Historical Association (1975) * Grand Officier, National Order of Quebec<ref name="ONQ" /> (1992, posthumously)
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== External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0657380}} * [http://www.cinemaparlantquebec.ca/Cinema1930-52/pages/textbio/Textbio.jsp?textBioId=46&lang=en Biography], Quebec in Cinema * [https://www.nfb.ca/directors/jean-palardy/?language=all Watch films directed by Jean Palardy] at the National Film Board of Canada
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