McMichael Canadian Art Collection
10365 Islington Avenue
Vaughan, Ontario
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Among the great treasures of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection is a group of 54 jewel-like miniatures by the artist Clarence Gagnon. Completed in the early 1930s, these are the final paintings made for Louis Hémon’s novel Maria Chapdelaine.
Clarence Gagnon (1881–1942), Christmas Mass, 1928—1933. Pastel and/or coloured pencil on paper sheet, 21.7 x 23.8 cm. Image: 18.2 x 21.8 cm. Gift of Colonel R.S. McLaughlin, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1969.4.34.