First Meal
Left side of the mural, the First Nations people bringing native crops and game to the meal; Robert LaPalme (born Joseph-Anatole-Thomas-Robert Gaboriau) was one of the most famous Quebec caricaturists; his work appeared in nearly every important French newspaper in Canada, and he illustrated numerou...
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ftmitdome:oai:dome.mit.edu:1721.3/171764 2023-05-15T16:14:59+02:00 First Meal LaPalme, Robert Robert LaPalme (Canadian artist, 1908-1997) Site: Montréal Botanical Garden (Montréal, Québec, Canada) ca. 1956 (creation) 1956 glazed ceramic tile image/jpeg http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/171764 unknown 255829 archrefid: 2971 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/171764 6A1-LAPR-BGM-B11 © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only MIT historical human figure France--Colonies--America Native North Americans First Nations eating feasting Twentieth century image 1956 ftmitdome 2022-03-15T17:47:56Z Left side of the mural, the First Nations people bringing native crops and game to the meal; Robert LaPalme (born Joseph-Anatole-Thomas-Robert Gaboriau) was one of the most famous Quebec caricaturists; his work appeared in nearly every important French newspaper in Canada, and he illustrated numerous books. He was also artistic director for the metro (subway), where he set a policy that favored representational art telling the history of Montreal, one of the first metro networks to include public art throughout the network. The murals for the Botanical Garden Restaurant follow that idea; here, a depiction of a first meal shared between the French and the First Nations peoples. The restaurant was renovated in 2013, but preserved the Art Deco layout and used colors found in the mural. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 5/7/2014) Still Image First Nations MIT Libraries Dome Canada |
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Left side of the mural, the First Nations people bringing native crops and game to the meal; Robert LaPalme (born Joseph-Anatole-Thomas-Robert Gaboriau) was one of the most famous Quebec caricaturists; his work appeared in nearly every important French newspaper in Canada, and he illustrated numerous books. He was also artistic director for the metro (subway), where he set a policy that favored representational art telling the history of Montreal, one of the first metro networks to include public art throughout the network. The murals for the Botanical Garden Restaurant follow that idea; here, a depiction of a first meal shared between the French and the First Nations peoples. The restaurant was renovated in 2013, but preserved the Art Deco layout and used colors found in the mural. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 5/7/2014) |
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