Artist Dale Auger
Title Untitled - The Protector
Media acrylic on canvas
Size 30 x 30 in. / 76.2 x 76.2 cm.
Frame Size 33.25 x 33.5 x 2 in.
Estimate $5,000 - $7,000
Notes
signed lower right; framed
Provenance
purchased directly from the artist; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Dale Auger ~ [1958-2008] Canadian
Born in High Prairie, Alberta Dr. Dale Auger B.Ed., M.Ed., Ph. was a prominent western Canadian and Sakaw Cree Indian painter, educator, author, and popular public speaker. His primary medium was acrylic paint and his subjects included portraits, figures, animals, and still life.
For more biographical information and examples of work see article at White Wolf Pack;
see Mwakwa, Talks to the Loon, written and illustrated by D.Auger, Heritage Publishing, 2006;
Medicine Paint: The Art of Dale Auger, by Dale Auger and Mary-Beth Laviolette, Heritage House, 2009;
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]