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{{Infobox artist | name = Raoul Hunter | image = | caption = | image_size = 200px | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|6|18}} | birth_place = Saint-Cyrille-de-Lessard, l'Islet, Quebec, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age |2018|12|10 |1926|6|18 |mf=yes}} | death_place = Quebec City | nationality = | field = sculptor and caricaturist | training = School of fine arts, Quebec and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts of Paris | movement = | works = }} '''Raoul Hunter''' (June 18, 1926 – December 10, 2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/la-capitale/raoul-hunter-nest-plus-1926-2018-4962eaf12344b426d29f9167d408a086|title=Raoul Hunter n'est plus (1926-2018)|last=Ricard-Châtelain|first=Baptiste|date=December 11, 2018|website=Le Soleil|language=french|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=December 12, 2018}}</ref> was a Canadian sculptor and caricaturist.
== Biography ==
Born in Saint-Cyrille-de-Lessard, l'Islet, Quebec, Canada, Hunter studied at l’École des Beaux-Arts de Québec and at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris.<ref>[http://www.raoulhunter.com/rhunter_eng.html Artist's web site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231439/http://www.raoulhunter.com/rhunter_eng.html |date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref>
He was a caricaturist for Quebec City's ''Le Soleil'' from 1956 to 1989.<ref>[http://www.banq.qc.ca/histoire_quebec/parcours_thematiques/hunter/index.jsp La ville de Québec sous caricatures]</ref>
From 1989 he worked primarily as a sculptor.
== Works == <gallery> Image:Emilie Gamelin.JPG|Raoul Hunter's Émilie Gamelin (1999) at Berri–UQAM station of the Montreal Metro File:William Lyon Mackenzie King statue.jpg|Raoul Hunter's William Lyon Mackenzie King (1967) on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario Canada File:Monument à la mémoire des marins de la marine marchande canadienne.jpg|Raoul Hunter's Canadian Merchant Navy (2002) of World War II, Pointe-à-Carcy, Quebec </gallery> * Mother Émilie Gamelin, 1999, at Berri–UQAM station of the Montreal Metro.<ref>[http://www.metrodemontreal.com/art/hunter/metro.html Mère Émilie Gamelin]</ref> * Statue of William Lyon Mackenzie King (1967), on Parliament Hill, Ottawa * Monument to the memory of the Canadian merchant seamen from the province of Quebec who lost their lives at sea during World War II, Pointe-à-Carcy, Quebec, 2002.<ref>[http://www.raoulhunter.com/stat_fra/marin_fra.html Merchant Seamen] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231432/http://www.raoulhunter.com/stat_fra/marin_fra.html |date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref>
== Honours ==
* Member since 1989 of the Order of Canada.<ref>[http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=2686 Member of the Order of Canada] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070930050259/http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=2686 |date=September 30, 2007 }}</ref> {{-}}
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