Norman Laliberte Original Paint Mixed Media Titled “& Don’t Forget” 1993

An original mixed media by Norman Laliberte from 1993 entitled “& Don’t Forget”. Signed on the upper right front and on the back cover panel. Measure overall 40 ½”, 33 3/8” high, 2” wide, art 29 ½” wide and 22” high. Framed in gold gilded wood and matted.

American/Canadian printmaker, painter, sculptor, author, and educator Norman Laliberte was born in Worcester, Massachussets, in 1925, to French Canadian parents. He was raised in Montreal, Canada, where he attended l’Ecole du Musee des beaux-arts. After graduation in 1948 he returned to the U.S. to continue his studies at the Institute of Design (BS, 1951) and the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago (MS in art education, 1956). Additional courses took place at Worcester Museum and the Cranbrook Academy in Michigan, to which he was granted a painting scholarship. He then began an extensive exhibiting career in conjunction with his work as a teacher.

Laliberte cited the influences of Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso. He was part of the zeitgeist of artists and designers in the 1950s and ‘60s who drew on folk art and Victorian era design. He also found ideas in ancient Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Aztec art.

A major feature of Laliberte’s early output was banners executed in fabric, inpired by a trip he took to the Italian city of Siena during their summer festivals. This would prove to be a key turn in his career, as he was commissioned to work a consultant at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, creating a structure made of 88 banners to represent stained glass walls for the Vatican Pavilion; this job earned him international recognition as both an artist and a designer. His most recent commission was eighteen large panels for the International Terminal at the Logan Airport in Boston. Norman LaLiberté died at his home in Nahant, Massachusetts on September 10, 2021.
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