Adrien Hébert
Montreal Harbour
Artist
Adrien Hébert
Paris 1890 – Montreal 1967
Title
Montreal Harbour
Date
1925
Materials
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
101.6 x 81 cm
Credits
Purchase, gifts of Maurice Corbeil and Nahum Gelber, inv. 1985.6
Collection
Quebec and Canadian Art
Adrien Hébert added a quintessentially modern theme to the expanding repertoire of subject matter: harbour machinery, whose functionalist aesthetic he admired. Montreal Harbour is impressive in the structure it creates through a dynamic interplay of verticals and diagonals in the form of derricks, the painted smokestacks and hulls of docked ships, conveyors, a grain elevator and a silo wall.
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