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Adrien Hébert, Port of Montreal, SS Duchess of Richmond, 1930 (circa). Oil on canvas. 30 x 24 in (76.2 x 61 cm). See price. Port of Montreal, SS Duchess of Richmond is an important witness to Adrien Hébert's significance. Focusing on the Port of Montreal, the busiest in Canada and an engine of the country's economy, using as his stage the massive architectural structures, the enormity of the ocean liner juxtaposed against the figures, Hébert has composed a painterly record of Canada's industrial revolution and transformation to modernity. In the exhibition catalogue for the celebrated Montreal Museum of Fine Arts travelling exhibition, 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group, scholar Esther Trépanier begins her text: 'In view of painter Adrien Hébert's persistent preoccupation with urban modernization, which set him apart from other Quebec artists of the 1920s, his case merits individual attention. Of all the artists who exhibited with the Beaver Hall Group, Adrien Hébert stands out for his... Read more