Simone Mary Bouchard

Simone Mary Bouchard (1912–1945) was a Canadian painter and textile artist. She was known for her 'popular' or Outsider style of painting. She began her career creating hooked rugs for the tourist trade. She became acquainted with the anthropologist Marius Barbeau, and his assistant, the ethnologist/painter Jean Palardy. Subsequently, Bouchard repaired textiles for Barbeau and produced rugs for Palardy.

Art career In 1937, her work was included in and exhibition of North American outsider artists.

Barbeau and Palardy became aware of Bouchard's paintings, which were naive genre scenes. The men brought her work to the attention of other artists and collectors. Paul-Émile Borduas, Stanley Cosgrove, Louise Landry Gadbois, Eric Goldberg, John Goodwin Lyman, Louis Muhlstock, Alfred Pellan, Goodridge Roberts, Jori Smith, and Philip Surrey. The exhibition traveled to Montreal. and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

Bouchard died in 1945 of a lung ailment.