The Painter of Gaspésie Quebec City, 1927. A child begins to paint. By fourteen, the prizes from the Exposition Provinciale de Québec are already arriving. Claude Picher does not remain within the confines of traditional instruction; he finds the methods at the École des beaux-arts de Québec too conventional. He moves toward New York, studying at the New School of Social Research, before a French Government grant pulls him toward Pari…