Merman
Norval Morrisseau emerged
on the Canadian
art scene in the 1960's and can be credited with establishing a whole
new
school of art, having a profound impact on the world and his own
culture.
His dramatic interpretations of life and the legends of his culture
have
influenced generations of native artists.
This particular piece is a
little bit of
Canadian Native art history. In Red Lake, Ontario three brothers Goyce,
Joachim and Henry Kakagamic founded what was to be the first artists
co-operative
for Woodland Native artists. They produced serigraph editions of some
of
the early Woodland artists, including Carl Ray, Saul Williams and
Norval
Morisseau. As with most of the editions
that they created this has a fairly small edition size of only 88
prints.
The subject matter is of the Legend of the Mermen, a mythological lost
race who were half fish and half human. The size of the print is app.
16
X 22.
I have also included on this page a
different
intrepretation of the same legend by Norval's son David. This one is
not
for sale though as it was a gift to me from David.
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