Albert Edward Cloutier was born in 1902 of Canadian parents in Leominster, Massachusetts, USA.
Transmission lines lead from the dam to pulp and paper, mining and manufacturing industries.
[4] During World War II (1939–1945) Cloutier was Art Director for the Wartime Information Board in 1941.
[6] Cloutier was an Official Second World War artist with the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1943 to 1946.
[1] Cloutier was among the artists selected to decorate the interior of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, owned by the Canadian National Railway, which opened in 1958.
Others were Jean Dallaire (wall hanging), Marius Plamondon (stained glass mural), Claude Vermette (ceramic tiles) and Julien Hébert (bronze elevator doors).
[1] Cloutier worked in oils, water colors, tempera, clay, wood and metals.
[1] Cloutier followed the French Canadian tradition of showing settled farm landscapes and avoided modernism.
[10] Selected commissions include:[1] Cloutier made some of the illustrations for Kingdom of the Saguenay (1936) by Marius Barbeau.