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Some of My Friends [graphic material]

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Date:

n.d.

Reference:

R13605-0-2-E, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4014142

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Some of My Friends
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Date(s):

n.d.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1 serigraph ; 91.4 x 243.8 cm.
Support 91.400 x 243.800 cm

Language of material:

English

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Item is a serigraph by Norval Morrisseau entitled Some of My Friends.

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Morrisseau, Norval, 1932-2007

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Morrisseau, Norval, 1932-2007 : Norval Morrisseau, an Anishinaabe artist also known as Copper Thunderbird, was born on March 14, 1932, on the Sand Point Ojibwe Reserve near Beardmore, Ontario. Some sources quote him as saying he was born in nearby Fort William, now part of Thunder Bay, on the same day in 1931. He founded the Woodland School (style of art), also known as Legend or Medicine Painting. He was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1973 and was awarded the Order of Canada in 1978. In 1989, Morrisseau was the only Canadian painter invited to exhibit in Paris to mark the bicentennial of the French Revolution. He died in Toronto on December 4, 2007.

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Custodial history:

Item was purchased from the Bearclaw Gallery in 2008

Subject heading:

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Portraits

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2009-00300-4
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
To be viewed with the assistance of the Portrait Gallery of Canada

Volume [R13605]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit line : Library and Archives, archival reference number R13605-1
Copyright : Norval Morrisseau
Restrictions on use : None

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