École des beaux-arts de Montréal

École des beaux-arts de Montréal (French pronunciation: [ekɔl de boz‿aʁ də mɔ̃ʁeal]; The School of Fine Arts in Montreal; EBAM) was an educational institution founded in Quebec in 1922. The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society was instrumental in its creation. Its former Sherbrooke Street building now houses the Office québécois de la langue française.

École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal building in 2011

Faculty of the school include Edwin Holgate as well as Academy Award-winning animator and painter Frédéric Back, who taught there briefly prior to joining Radio-Canada.^[1]

The building was completed in 1922 as the Commercial & Technical High School, designed by Montreal architect Jean-Omer Marchand, and is located at 3450 Saint Urbain Street (at Sherbrooke Street) in Montreal.^[2]

In 1969, the school was incorporated into the Faculty of the Arts of the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Notable alumni

• Jean L Auger
• Micheline Beauchemin
• Paul-Émile Borduas
• Ghitta Caiserman-Roth^[3]
• John Alton Collins
• Jacques Drouin^[4]
• Pierre Granche
• Sylvia Lefkovitz
• Enid Legros-Wise
• Jean Paul Lemieux
• Anna McGarrigle (1964–1968)^{[5]: 212, 229–230}
• Anne Isabelle McQuire (1921–2006)
• Guido Molinari
• Claude Roussel
• Armand Vaillancourt