Musée du Bas Saint-Laurent

With a dual mission in contemporary Quebec art and regional history, the Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent offers exhibitions and activities adapted to all audiences.

The permanent exhibition Faces and Landscapes highlights the history, people and culture of the region, based on the Musée's photographic archives. Over 500 photographs are featured in this exhibition, which also includes a darkroom and a small photo studio inspired by the early 20th century.

Summer exhibition 2024: Forgotten! Scott, Brandtner, Eveleigh, Webber:
revisiting Montreal abstraction in the 1940s

Curator: Esther Trépanier

June 21 to October 27, 2024 (Vernissage June 20 at 5 p.m.)

Four artists - one woman and three men - little-known or not at all, participated in the aesthetic breakthroughs that led to abstraction in Montreal in the 1940s. Marian Dale Scott, Fritz Brandtner, Henry Eveleigh and Gordon Webber were well known in the art world of that decade, and caught the attention of critics of the time, for whom the term "abstract art" meant both a non-objective work and a bold formal exploration that could retain some reference to the outside world.