barn painting

Mougeot-Raby, Marguerite

1967

paint; wood

Canadian Museum of History

A black and white cow stands in a grassy field with a small pond and trees under a blue sky. The painting is rendered in a folk art style on a wooden surface. A black and white cow stands in a grassy field with a small pond and trees under a blue sky. The painting is rendered in a folk art style on a wooden surface. Maguerite Mougeot-Raby lives with her husband and four children on a farm on the north shore of the Ottawa River. Although she shares the various farm tasks with her husband, she spends her leisure time decorating the barn and the sheepfold. These garnitures (trimmings), as she calls them, are usually paintings of domestic animals. The artist applies house paint in bright colours on large panels of plywood attached to the gable ends of the barn and the sheepfold. Facing this c