Raoul Hunter (June 18, 1926 – December 10, 2018) was a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

and

caricaturist A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. List of caricaturists * Abed Abdi (born 1942) * Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) * Alex Gard (1900–1948) * Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977) * Alfred Grévin (1827–1892) * Alf ...

Biography

Born in Saint-Cyrille-de-Lessard, l'Islet,

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, Canada, Hunter studied at l’École des Beaux-Arts de Québec and at the

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. He was a caricaturist for

Quebec City Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is t ...

's ''

Le Soleil Le Soleil ("The Sun") is the name of several newspapers: * ''Le Soleil'' (Quebec), a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, founded in 1896 * ''Le Soleil'' (French newspaper), a defunct daily newspaper based in Paris fro ...

'' from 1956 to 1989. From 1989 he worked primarily as a sculptor.

Works

Image:Emilie Gamelin.JPG, Raoul Hunter's

Émilie Gamelin Émilie Tavernier Gamelin (19 February 1800 – 23 September 1851) was a Canadian social worker and Roman Catholic religious sister. She is best known as the founder of the Sisters of Providence of Montreal. In 2001 she was beatified ...

(1999) at the Berri-UQAM station of the Montreal Metro File:William Lyon Mackenzie King statue.jpg, Raoul Hunter's

William Lyon Mackenzie King William Lyon Mackenzie King (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian statesman and politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. A L ...

(1967) on

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File:Monument à la mémoire des marins de la marine marchande canadienne.jpg, Raoul Hunter's

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(2002) of

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, Pointe-à-Carcy, Quebec * Mother

, 1999, at the Berri-UQAM station of the Montreal Metro. * Statue of

(1967), on

, Ottawa * Monument to the memory of the Canadian merchant seamen from the province of Quebec who lost their lives at sea during

, Pointe-à-Carcy, Quebec, 2002.

Honours

* Member since 1989 of the

Order of Canada The Order of Canada (french: Ordre du Canada; abbreviated as OC) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the cen ...

.Member of the Order of Canada

References

1926 births 2018 deaths Canadian sculptors Canadian male sculptors Members of the Order of Canada Artists from Quebec {{Canada-sculptor-stub