Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau: Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media
2016Robertson, Carmen L.
221 pages
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1932 Sandy Point, Reserve, Ontario, Canada - 2007 Toronto, Ontorio, Canada. Known for: Modernist Indian figurative motif painting and drawing.
An Objibwa/Chippewa shaman, Norval Morrisseau was one of the first native Canadians to adopt modernist* styles that conveyed traditional aboriginal imagery. "His style, which became known as... Read full biography
An Objibwa/Chippewa shaman, Norval Morrisseau was one of the first native Canadians to adopt modernist* styles that conveyed traditional aboriginal imagery. "His style, which became known as Woodland* or Legend painting, evoked ancient etching from birch-bark scrolls and often used X-ray like... Read full biography
An Objibwa/Chippewa shaman, Norval Morrisseau was one of the first native Canadians to adopt modernist* styles that conveyed traditional aboriginal imagery. "His style, which became known as Woodland* or Legend painting, evoked ancient etching from birch-bark scrolls and often used X-ray like motifs: skeletal elements and internal organs visible within the forms of animals and people, and black spirit lines emanating from them.". He used saturated, startling colors described by a curator of the... Read full biography
An Objibwa/Chippewa shaman, Norval Morrisseau was one of the first native Canadians to adopt modernist* styles that conveyed traditional aboriginal imagery. "His style, which became known as Woodland* or Legend painting, evoked ancient etching from birch-bark scrolls and often used X-ray like motifs: skeletal elements and internal organs visible within the forms of animals and people, and black spirit lines emanating from them.". He used saturated, startling colors described by a curator of the National Gallery of Canada as appearing "to vibrate under the viewer's gaze." In 2006, the Gallery sponsored a retrospective of Morrisseau's work. From there, the exhibition moved for a year to the George Gustav Heye Center at the Smithsonian... Read full biography
An Objibwa/Chippewa shaman, Norval Morrisseau was one of the first native Canadians to adopt modernist* styles that conveyed traditional aboriginal imagery. "His style, which became known as Woodland* or Legend painting, evoked ancient etching from birch-bark scrolls and often used X-ray like motifs: skeletal elements and internal organs visible within the forms of animals and people, and black spirit lines emanating from them.". He used saturated, startling colors described by a curator of the National Gallery of Canada as appearing "to vibrate under the viewer's gaze." In 2006, the Gallery sponsored a retrospective of Morrisseau's work. From there, the exhibition moved for a year to the George Gustav Heye Center at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. A 2001 exhibit in New York City at the Drawing Center featured Morriss... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (42)
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"7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc." (MacKenzie Art Gallery
2014Lavallee, Michele359 pages (color)Living With Animals: Ojibwe Spirit Powers
2014Pomedli, Michael335 pagesNorval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird
2014Ruffo, Armand312 pages (color)Miriam and Hudson Sargeant: Art Collection (Ottawa Art Gallery)
2014Sinclair, Catherine35 pages (color)AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario357 pages (color)Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes (Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian)
2013Penney, David W. and Gerald McMaster (General Editors)128 pages (color)Meditation and the Evolution of Cosmic Consciousness
2011Ayre, Don308 pages (color)The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Dedicated to the memory of John Fox, Painter and Teacher)
2010Foss, Brian; Anne Whitelaw and Sandra Paikowsky480 pages (color)Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture
2009Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie; Madeleine Dion Stout379 pages (color)Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings
2007Newlands, Anne366 pages (color)Canadian Aboriginal Art and Spirituality: A Vital Link
2006Friesen, John W; Virginia Agnes Lyons Friesen242 pagesNorval Morrisseau: Shaman Artist (National Gallery of Canada)
2006Hill, Greg A.186 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesHidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples To Canadian Identity and Culture, Volume 1
2005Beavon, Daniel J.K.; Cora Jane Voyageur; David Newhouse458 pages (color)Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesThe Sixties in Canada (National Gallery of Canada)
2005
(Exhibition catalog)Leclerc, Denise; Pierre Dessureault; National Gallery of Canada188 pages (color)Aboriginality: The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Volume 2
2005Twigg, Alan259 pagesBill Reid and Beyond: Expanding on Modern Native Art
2004Duffek, Karen, Editor; Charlotte Townsend-Gault; Douglas and McIntyre309 pages (color)Hiding the Audience: Viewing Arts and Arts Institutions on the Prairies
2003Kaye, Frances W.301 pagesThe Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar622 pagesNative American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories
1999Rushing, W. Jackson214 pages (color)The Helen E. Band Collection of First Nations Art: From the Permanent Collection of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery
1998Clark, Janet48 pages (color)St. James Guide to Native North American Artists
1998Matuz, Roger (Editor)691 pagesNative American Artists
1995Reno, Dawn E.230 pagesAboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
1994Rogers, Edward S. and Donald B. Smith448 pagesA Paintbrush in My Hand
1992Odjig, Daphne; Rosamond M. Vanderburgh; Beth Southcott174 pages (color)Mixed Blessings New Art in a Multicultural America
1990Lippard, Lucy R279 pages (color)Dear M: Letters from a Gentleman of Excess
1990Pollock, Jack308 pages (color)Woodlands: Contemporary Art of the Anishnabe (Thunder Bay Gallery)
1989Podedworny, Carol47 pages (color)One Man's Obsession
1986McMichael, Robert410 pagesA Visual Bestiary: Animals in Art (Stewart Art Centre)
1984Brice, Megan61 pagesNorval Morrisseau and the Emergence of the Image Makers (Art Gallery of Ontario)
1984McLuhan, Elizabeth and Tom Hill118 pages (color)The Sound of the Drum: The Sacred Art of the Anishnabec
1984Southcott, Beth222 pages (color)Contemporary Indian Art at Rideau Hall
1983Munro, John C., Preface32 pagesMagic Images Contemporary Native American Art
1981Wade, Edwin L/R Strickland128 pagesThe Sweetgrass Lives On Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists
1980Highwater, Jamake192 pages (color)The Sweet Grass Lives On: Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists
1980Highwater, Jamake192 pages (color)The Art of Norval Morrisseau
1979Wolff, Hennie337 pagesA Selection of Work: Contemporary Indian Art, the Trail from the Past to the Future (Mackenzie Gallery at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario)
1977
(Exhibition catalog)Cinader, Bernhard31 pages (color)Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy254 pages (color)The Ontario Centennial Art Exhibition (Ontario Council for the Arts)
1967Robertson, Bryan60 pages