Reference: see artist's website at johnsabourin.com; John Sabourin was born and raised in the small northern community of Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories in Canada. John began experimenting with acrylics in 1989, but became serious about pursuing a career as an artist in 1995 after completing an art course in the Northwest Territories. He decided to continue formal studies of art and graduated in 1999 from the Victoria College of Art in Victoria, British Columbia. John is both a painter and a sculptor. In his paintings he explores the relationship between human beings and nature. As a carver he feels close to his Dene cultural identity as he looks for stories or legends to bring to life in stone. John has exhibited his carvings and paintings at Walkabout Art Gallery in Sydney, Australia in November, 2002, Arctic Artistry in New York June, 2002, The Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, Northwest Territories in 2002 and 2001. In 1998, his carvings were exhibited at the "Spirits in the Sun" exhibit in Scottsdale, Arizona and in 1995, his carvings were part of a group exhibit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1999, along with two other artists, John completed a five foot marble sculpture that celebrated the cultural diversity of Canada's North. John has sold his paintings to private collectors in Canada and the United States. - from the artist's website

Reference: 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

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Reference: see artist's website www.allensapp.com

see Cree Life - the Art of Allen Sapp, published by J. Warner, Douglas Ltd., 1977; Two Spirits Soar - The Art of Allen Sapp, The Inspiration of Allan Gonor, by W.P. Kinsella, published by Stoddart, 1990; Kiskayetum - Allen Sapp: - Retrospective, by Bob Boyer, published by MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1994; The Song Within My Heart, David Bouchard, published by Raincoast Books, 2002; Nokum is My Teacher, by David Bouchard, Red Deer Press, 2006; included in Time for Dialogue, by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, pg. 19, published by Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, 1992; biographies in Biographical Dictionary of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by Marketa Newman, pg. 223, published by Fifth House, 1994; Westbridge, Vol. 4, pg. 4; 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

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Reference: biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg. 14, Westbridge Pub., 2003; exhibition list in M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg. 334

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Reference: see artist's website at www.sinclairart.com; see Mountains and the Sky, by L.Render, pg.206 for other examples of the artist's work in the collection of the Glenbow Museum; Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.233, Fifth House Pub., 1994; Spaces and Places: Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta, by J.Ironside, pg.30

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Reference: 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

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Reference: Snow was born in Vancouver in 1911, lived in England during WW1 and with the family returned to Olds, Alberta in 1919. He had successful career for over 43 years with the Royal Bank of Canada and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII. After the war he and Maxwell Bates began a fruitful friendship that invigorated the art scene in Calgary and supported the modernist period of art in Alberta. As self-taught printers they began making lithographs with two old machine presses they rescued from an alleyway and this medium came to define Snow's work, though he also worked in watercolour, oil, mixed media, concrete sculpture, textiles, and intaglio relief. In addition to his talent in the visual arts, Snow was an accomplished musician who helped create the New Works Calgary Society and he also organized the Calgary Film Society in the late 1940s. He was inducted as a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1996. His residence and studio is now registered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places; see John Snow House

For more detailed biographical information see Government of Alberta and Feckless Collection; see a comprehensive 2002 article written in Galleries West; see also John Snow: Four Decades, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1990; Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.101 and pg.65; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.137 and A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.425; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.28, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; included in Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy-Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.42, pl.45a, UofC Press; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.35, Westbridge Pub., 2003 for biography; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.383 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.360

Reference: Frobisher Bay / Iqaluit; included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-701

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Reference: biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.38, Westbridge Pub., 2003; 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; the artist along with Rich Roenisch completed a massive 14 foot high scupture titled By the Banks of the Bow for the Calgary Stampede

Reference: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver

Reference: 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 at Artists in Canada Artists in Canada