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Carl Beam artworks [graphic material]

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[2000].

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R15583-38-7-E

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5761076

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Milton Winberg collection

Carl Beam artworks
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Date(s):

[2000].

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7 paintings.

Language of material:

English

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Seven portraits of prominent Canadians by Carl Beam

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Winberg, Milton

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Artist: Beam, Carl, 1943-2005

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Beam, Carl, 1943-2005 : Carl Beam was born Carl Edward Migwans on May 24, 1943, in West Bay on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, among the Ojibwe First Nation (renamed later M'Chigeeng First Nation), and died there on July 30, 2005. At 10, Beam was sent to the Garnier residential school in Spanish, Ontario, where he remained until he was 18. He then went to the Kootenay School of Art in British Columbia in 1971 and transferred to the University of Victoria, where he graduated with a BA. He received his MFA at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 1976. By the late 1970s, Beam was already working with his signature photo-collages including other media such as drawings, painting and texts. This allowed him to juxtapose and oppose different ideas, often infusing them with a political commentary on the struggle of Aboriginal people in the late 20th century. Carl Beam is also known for his sculpture and pottery work. In 1986, he became the first contemporary artist from a First Nation ancestry to have his work purchased into the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada when they bought The North American Iceberg (1985). Beam's work has been included in many group exhibitions, including Indigena: Perspectives of Indigenous Peoples on Five Hundred Years, organized by the National Gallery of Canada in 1992. There was also a posthumous exhibition, Carl Beam, organized by the National Gallery in 2011. In 2000, Carl Beam was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts and in 2005 he was posthumously a recipient of the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

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Donated by Milton Winberg

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