A painter, draughtsman, printmaker, illustrator, Adrien Hébert, son of noted sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert, liked to paint Sainte-Catherine Street with its buildings, pedestrians and automobiles and the busy port’s complex array of lines shapes, colours , a worthy subject for art and a welcome symbol of industrial progress. His paintings appear to combine a certain Impressionist flavor wedded to a forthright Canadian approach to actuality.