Umberto Bruni

Canadian

Born: Canada: Quebec, Montreal 1914-11-24
Selected works
Umberto Bruni
1914-2021
Oil on canvas panel
12 x 14 in
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sold artworks
Umberto Bruni
1914-2021
Maison de ferme
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in
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Umberto Bruni
1914-2021
Maisons aux Éboulements Charlevoix
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 in
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Umberto Bruni
1914-2021
Éboulements Charlevoix
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in
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Umberto Bruni
1914-1921
Effet de lumière dans le boisé
Oil on board
12 x 14 in
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Umberto Bruni
1914-2021
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 in
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Umberto Bruni
1914-2021
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in
Sold
Umberto Bruni
1914-2021
Oil on canvas panel
12 x 14 in
Sold
Umberto Bruni
1914-2021
Lévis Ferry
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 in
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Umberto Bruni
1914-1921
La belle journée
Oil on canvas panel
8 x 10 in
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Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received his very first lessons in art from an Italian tutor and later studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, under C. Maillard, M. Felix, St. Charles, E. Holgate, R. Pilot and H. Charpentier where he graduated with distinction. He taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts until 1962 when he received a Canada Council grant to travel in Italy to study techniques in mural painting. His studies of stained glass and fresco painting in the 1930’s have given him a good background for the many church decorations in Montreal and elsewhere in the Province of Quebec. He is also an accomplished sculptor. He completed a mural 700 square feet for the main stairway of the British-American Oil Company building on Graham Blvd. in Montreal. The mural reveals the clean and refreshing influence of his former teacher Edwin Holgate. It stretches the full height of the interior of the two storey building and depicts scenes from Quebec’s history and culture. He exhibited his non-figurative paintings at the Gallery XII in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1960.
Source: “A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume I: A-F”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1977
Studied at
l’École des beaux-arts de Montréal , 1930 -1938
Collections
Assemblée nationale du Québec
Collection d’œuvres d’art, Université de Montréal
Musée de la civilisation, collection du Séminaire de Québec
Musée de l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph
Musée des Hospitalières de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal
Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges
Exhibitions
Awards
Lion d’or au Mérite by the Order of Canadian Sons of Italy , 1989
Commemorative medal of Canada, 1992
an honorable mention of the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec , 1995
Professional Activities
In 1972 he was the Director and founder of the Gallery UQAM. member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1977
Publications
Rosette Pipar, ”Umberto Bruni – L’homme et son art, monographie, Marcel Broquet éditeur, 2011.
Cyrille Felteau et Umberto Bruni, Umberto Bruni, monographie, Collection Signatures et Signatures: Broquet, 1980.