(1910–1990)
Arthur Villeneuve was raised in a working-class family in Chicoutimi, Québec. Leaving school at age fourteen, he worked at a paper mill before becoming a barber. His prosperity ended with the death of his first wife; he remarried and lived with his seven children in a modest house in Chicoutimi. Villeneuve taught himself to paint and, from 1950, he covered his house with painted images and created thousands of paintings. He received the Order of Canada in 1972.

Collections: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City; Villeneuve House, Pulperie de Chicoutimi, Québec; Musée d’Art Singulier Contemporain, Mansonville, Québec.

Filmography: Villeneuve: peintre-barbier (National Film Board of Canada, 1972).