Reference: listed on www.artprice.com

Reference: Odjig was born in 1919 in Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island, Ontario to an English mother and a Potawatomi father. At the age of thirteen she left school permanently due to rheumatic fever, and instead received art lessons at home from her grandfather who was a stone carver. At the beginning of World War II, she moved to Toronto for job opportunities. In 1945, she moved to British Columbia with her husband Paul Somerville. One of the largest influences on Odjig’s art was the Wikwemikong powwow in 1964. After the powwow, she was inspired to paint both the mythological legends and the lived history of the Anishinaabe. She became a co-founder of the Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. [PNIAI], a group of indigenous artists who advocated for ‘inclusion, recognition, and equal access to art funding.’ Odjig, along with Norval Morrisseau, another member of the PNIAI, was one of the first artists to represent the Anishinaabe culture and philosophy within her work. Her style is characterized by a bold use of colour, strong outlines, and calligraphic curves influenced by her grandfather. In 1971, she opened Odjig Indian Prints of Canada, now known as the Wah-Sa Gallery, to showcase Indigenous artists. In 1972, her art was placed in the Winnipeg Art Gallery, marking the first time an Indigenous artist’s work was shown in a gallery instead of a museum. She was awarded the Order of Canada in 1986. Throughout her life, Odjig was an important and influential advocate for the history and art of Indigenous peoples.

see
Daphne Odjig - A Retrospective 1946-1985 by E.McLuhan, Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre, 1985;
Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960-2000 by Bob Boyer and Carol Podedworny, published by Key Porter Books, 2001;
Four Decades of Prints, by M.Wood, Kamloops Art Gallery, 2005;
Daphne Odjig, by B.Devine, NGC, 2007

biography and other examples in
Time for Dialogue, by J.Cardinal-Schubert, pg.18, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, 1992;
Dict. Of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.5, pg.1419;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.3, pg.58, Westbridge Pub., 2001

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]

Reference: Ohe is one of the founders of Kiyooka Ohe Art Centre and Sculpture Park in Springbank, Alberta. KOAC is a contemporary art centre founded by Katie with Harry Kiyooka where visitors can view an impressive collection of outdoor sculptures while enjoying the sanctuary of the natural environment.

for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at koartscentre.org

see Katie Ohe, by Richard Gordon, published by Alberta College of Art, 1991;
Katie Ohe: Ethos, Now and Then, published by Herringer Kiss Gallery, 2015

included in
The Shell Canada Collection, by Basil Shammas, pg. 39, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977;
Artists of Alberta, by Suzanne Devonshire Baker, pg. 36, University of Alberta Press, 1980;
Founders of the Alberta College of Art, by Valerie Greenfield, pg. 95, 1986;
Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy Five Years, by Kathy E. Zimon, plate 59, University of Calgary Press, 2000

biography and other examples in
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 3, pg. 60, Westbridge Publishing, 2001
Dictionary of Canadian Artists, by Colin MacDonald, Vol. 5, pg. 1428

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]

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E5-45, community Spence Bay / Taloyoak

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E2-384, community Baker Lake; see Jessie Oonark: A Retrospective, by J.Blodgett, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1986; Arts of the Eskimo: Prints, by E.Roch, pg.24; Landmarks of Canadian Art, by P.Mellen, pg.76, McClelland and Stewart, 1978; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers; included in www.artcyclopedia.com; listed on www.artprice.com

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-933, community Cape Dorset

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1698, community Cape Dorset

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1017, community Cape Dorset

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E5-1745, community Clyde River / Kangiqtugaapik

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-1103, community Sugluk / Salluit

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Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1024, community Cape Dorset

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, community Hesquiaht / Nuu Chah Nulth

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1064, community Cape Dorset; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; listed on www.artprice.com

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Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1928, community Cape Dorset / Kinngait

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1037, community Cape Dorset; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; listed on www.artprice.com; listed on www.artprice.com

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number W3-1119, community Paulatuk; artist listed in Inuit Artist Index - January 1990, pg.160, pub. by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; the artist lives in Toronto and is represented by Galerie Vincent, Ottawa

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Reference: see Who Discovered the Americas, Recent Work by Jane Ash Poitras, by Janet Clark, published by Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1992; Jane Ash Poitras: Cycle of Life, by Carolyne M. Chatel, published by Galerie d'art Vincent, 2002; Jane Ash Poitras: Consecrated Medicine, by Virginia M. Eichhorn, published by Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 2004; Jane Ash Poitras: Primordial Memories, by Isabelle Masse, published by Galerie d'art Vincent, 2005; Cultural Memories adn Imagined Futures: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras, by Pamela McCallum, published by University of Calgary Press, 2011; included in Survey Alberta 88, by Allan MacKay, pg. 49, A.C.A., 1988; Indigena: Contemporary Native Perspectives, by Gerald McMaster, pg. 164, published by Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1992; Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, 1996

biographies in Westbridge, Vol. 3, pg. 87 and North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, edited by Jules Heller, pg. 447, Garland Publishing, 1985; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: represented by Pegasus Gallery, Salt Spring Island, Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna among others

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Reference: see biography in
Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers;

included in Sculpture of the Eskimo, by G.Swinton, 1972;
Arts of the Eskimo: Prints, by P.Furneaux, Signum Press, 1974;
Cape Dorset Print Collection 1970, Eskimo Graphic Art;
The Inuit Print, by the National Museums of Canada and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa, 1977;
Inuit Artist Index, by the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg. 164, 1990;
Biographies of Inuit Artists, by the Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984

included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1168, community Cape Dorset / Kinngait

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]

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1174, community Cape Dorset

Reference: see artist's website deserepressey.com

Deseré Pressey is a Calgary-based visual artist whose instinctual, layered paintings explore transformation, healing, and the beauty that emerges through rupture. Her BREAK+BLOOM collection reflects the tender, often unruly process of becoming. Through Sound+SOMA, her current practice expands beyond the canvas to weave immersive sound, ritual, and embodied experience. Deseré is also a counselling student pursuing studies in spiritual and art therapy. Her work is collected locally and internationally and has been included in the Imago Mundi, Biennale di Venezia collection and the Fairmont Banff Springs private collection. She was also awarded an artist residency at Château Orquevaux in France.

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-997, community Cape Dorset / Kinngait

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-899, community Cape Dorset / Kinngait; see biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers; included in Sculpture of the Eskimo, by G.Swinton, 1972; Arts of the Eskimo: Prints, by P.Furneaux, Signum Press, 1974; included in 1963 Eskimo Art, by E.Turner, Canadian Eskimo Art Committee; Cape Dorset Print Collection 1970, Eskimo Graphic Art

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E6-1080, community Pangirtung

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E2-311, community Baker Lake

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E4-392, community Spence Bay / Taloyoak

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1668, community Cape Dorset

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-181, community Lake Harbour

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-2457, community Frobisher Bay

Reference: biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers; Arts of the Eskimo: Prints, E.Roch

included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1068, community Cape Dorset

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-103, community Belcher Islands

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E2-296, community Baker Lake / Qamani'tuaq

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E5-482, community Iglulik / Igloolik

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-843, community Povungnituk / Puvirnituq

Reference: included on the Katilvik website, disc number E6-288, community Pannirtuq / Pangnirtung

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Reference: listed on www.artprice.com

Reference: see
Bill Reid, by D.Shadbolt, U. of Washington Press, 1986;
The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, by Robert Bringhurst, Douglas and McIntyre 1991;
Bill Reid, the Making of an Indian, by M.Tippett, Random House, 2003

biography and other examples in
Time for Dialogue, by J.Cardinal-Schubert, pg.19, Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, 1992;
Northwest Coast Indian Graphics, by E.Hall, U. of Washington Press, 1981;
Dict. of Canadian Artists - Vol.7, by C.MacDonald, pg.1986

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]

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Reference: see artist's website sararobichaud.ca;

Sara Robichaud is a mid-career visual artist based on Vancouver Island. Primarily known as a formalist painter, her recent work explores feminine perspectives, memory, place, ritual, spirituality and ecology through site- specific installation and monumental 1:1-scale paintings. Robichaud holds an MFA from the University of Victoria [2009] and a BFAH from Queen’s University [1995]. Recent exhibitions include Objet D’Art [2026, solo] at THIS Gallery, Vancouver; Small Gatherings [2020] at Nanaimo Art Gallery; and Spectral [2019, solo] at Herringer-Kiss Gallery, where she is represented. Her work is held in public, corporate and private collections, including Global Affairs Canada, Fairmont Baku Flame Towers and Princess Noura of Saudi Arabia.

Reference: for more biographical information and examples of work see gallery website at gevik.com

listed on www.artprice.com