Firmly rooted in the natural world, the expressive paintings and prints of Norman Laliberté are uniquely personal songs of celebration! Images of flowers and fruit, young women and birds of song, still-life portraits of spoons and forks, these icons of the everyday world are the subjects of Laliberté’s art. Influenced by the poetic paintings of Klee and the inspired religiosity of Georges Roualt, Laliberté has created an evocative artistic language of his own. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts of French Canadian parents, Laliberté grew up in Montreal. His art studies took him from the Montreal Museum of Fine Art to the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Institute of Design in Chicago and eventually to the prestigious Cranbook Academy of Arts where he won a painting fellowship. A prodigious painter and sculptor, Laliberté is also highly regarded as a printmaker of exceptional talent. Laliberté studied etching with Richard Lacroix in Montreal, and later mastered stone lithography at the famous Atelier Mourlot in Paris. It is said that Laliberté’s mastery of the craft of lithograph was so superior that he was given Picassos own printing press to work on! Laliberté first received international recognition for his extraordinary exhibition of eighty-eight large, cloth-appliqué banners designed for the Vatican pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Commissions followed from such prestigious institutions as the National Art Centre of Ottawa; the American Institute of Architects in Washington D.C., the New York Bar Association, and numerous major corporations. Laliberté has also had a long and prominent career as an art educator and has written and illustrated many books on art and art education. Among the many awards he has received are an Honorary Doctorate from Notre Dame University and AIGA Award for Design. He has been the subject of a documentary by the National Film Board of Canada and has been featured in articles in such publications as Time, Life, The New York Times and Canadian Art magazine. Two major retrospective exhibitions of his work have been held: one at the Chicago Public Library and another at Montreal’s Saidye Bronfman Center. Paintings, prints and sculptures by Laliberté appear in the permanent collections of more than seventy-five museum and corporate collections, including the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

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