Jacques Hurtubise (painter)

Jacques Hurtubise (1939–2014) was a Canadian abstract painter,^[1][2] "known for his abstract, brightly coloured acrylic paintings".^[3]

Jacques Hurtubise
Born	1939 (1939)
Died	2014
Education	École des beaux-arts de Montréal.
Known for	painter

Career

Hurtubise was born on February 28, 1939, in Montreal, and studied painting at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. Already by 1960, at age 21, he had his first major show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.^[2][3] He spent much of the 1960s living in New York City and becoming part of the abstract expressionist scene there.^[1] His art at that time combined geometric forms with splashed paint, and he experimented with fluorescent colors and neon light art.^[1][2] In the early 1970s his compositions were based on square forms, but by the late 1970s they shifted to linear patterns that resembled abstract landscapes.^[1] His later work featured "deep-black pools, rivers and geometric forms that often mask upside-down maps and text."^[2]

His many awards included the grand prize for painting at the 1965 Concours Artistique du Québec, the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award of the Canada Council for the Arts in 1992,^[4] and the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas from the Québec government in 2000.^[2]

Following his daughter`s death in 1980, he sold his Montreal home and travelled. He moved to Nova Scotia in 1983,^[2] and died on December 27, 2014, near Inverness, Nova Scotia, on Cape Breton Island.^[1]