Zacharie VincentLife & Work

“Over the past several decades Vincent’s pioneering artistic example has been an inspiration for many Native artists. The strategies he employed still offer effective ways for an artist to initiate and support a dialogue with the general public and the ruling institutions of society.”

– Louise Vigneault

Zacharie Vincent: Life & Work demonstrates how, over the course of his career, this significant but too-little-known artist produced more than six hundred works—paintings and drawings of all kinds, from portraits to landscapes and conventional genre scenes—of which only around fifty are known to have survived. Louise Vigneault offers an examination of the ways Vincent’s art is critical to contemporary studies, including the representation of one culture by another, intercultural relations, the re-actualization of Native culture, categorization, conservation, preservation of indigenous works, and the use of images to achieve strategic, political, social, and symbolic ends.

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Banner Image: Zacharie Vincent, Fire at the Paper Mill in Lorette, c. 1862. Musée de la civilisation, Quebec City.