{{short description|Canadian painter and textile artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = Simone Mary Bouchard | image = Simone-Mary-Bouchard-au-chevalet.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1912}} | birth_place = Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, Canada | death_date = {{Death year and age|1945|1912}} | death_place = | nationality = | education = | field = Painter | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = }}
'''Simone Mary Bouchard''' (1912–1945) was a Canadian painter and textile artist. She was known for her 'popular' or Outsider style of painting.<ref name="cwahi " />
==Early life== Simone Mary Bouchard was born in 1912 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec.<ref name="cwahi " >{{cite web|title=Bouchard, Simone Marie|url=https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=134|website=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative|accessdate=29 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108043830/http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=134|archive-date=8 November 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> She began her career creating hooked rugs for the tourist trade. She became acquainted with the anthropologist Marius Barbeau, and his assistant, the ethnologist/painter Jean Palardy. Subsequently, Bouchard repaired textiles for Barbeau and produced rugs for Palardy.<ref name="LyleElder " >{{cite web|title=Simone-Marie Bouchard|url=http://lyleelderfolkart.com/artist-bios/simone-marie-bouchard/|website=Lyle Elder: Canadian Folk Art and Outsider Art|accessdate=29 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201043730/http://lyleelderfolkart.com/artist-bios/simone-marie-bouchard/|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Art career== In 1937, her work was included in and exhibition of North American outsider artists.<ref name="FromWomensEyes " >{{cite book|last1=Farr|first1=Dorothy|last2=Luckyj|first2=Natalie|title=From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada|date=1975|publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre|location=Kingston|pages=51}}</ref>
Barbeau and Palardy became aware of Bouchard's paintings, which were naive genre scenes. The men brought her work to the attention of other artists and collectors.<ref name="LyleElder " />
In 1941, Bouchard was included in the ''Première exposition des Indépendants'' exhibition at Palais Montcalm in Quebec City. This exhibition was organized by Marie-Alain Couturier and included eleven members of the Contemporary Arts Society; Bouchard,<ref name="Tippett " >{{cite book|last1=Tippett|first1=Maria|title=By a Lady|date=1992|publisher=Viking|location=Toronto, Ont.|isbn=0670844586|pages=81|edition=1. publ.}}</ref> Paul-Émile Borduas, Stanley Cosgrove, Louise Landry Gadbois, Eric Goldberg, John Goodwin Lyman, Louis Muhlstock, Alfred Pellan, Goodridge Roberts, Jori Smith, and Philip Surrey.<ref name="Carney " >{{cite book|last1=Carney|first1=Lora Senechal|title=Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925–1955: Writings and Reconsiderations|date=2017|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0773551923|pages=146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-EyDwAAQBAJ&q=Louise+Gadbois&pg=PA173|accessdate=25 November 2017}}</ref> The exhibition traveled to Montreal.<ref name="Carney " />
The Dominion Art Gallery in Montreal held retrospectives of her work in 1947 and 1952.<ref name="cwahi " />
Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/s-mary-bouchard|title=S. Mary Bouchard|website=www.gallery.ca|access-date=2019-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509010511/https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/s-mary-bouchard|archive-date=2019-05-09|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600002485 |title = Bouchard, Simone Mary}}</ref>
Bouchard died in 1945 of a lung ailment.<ref name="cwahi " />
In 2015, her work was included in ''The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Artists'', an exhibition co-curated by Alicia Boutilier and Tobi Bruce who also co-edited the book/catalogue.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lacroix |first1=Laurier|title="Simone Mary Bouchard". The Artist Herself |date=2015 |publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre/ Art Gallery of Hamilton |location=Kingston and Hamilton|page=99 |isbn=978-1-55339-407-5|url=https://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/abruce%2C+tobi/abruce+tobi/1%2C1%2C16%2CB/frameset&FF=abruce+tobi+++++1965&1%2C%2C16 |access-date=6 April 2025}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.artnet.com/artists/simone-mary-bouchard/ images of Simone Mary Bouchard's paintings] at ArtNet
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