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Artist: Norval Morrisseau

Nroval Morrisseau is a legend in his own time. An Ojibway Indian living like a nomad, on the northwest shores of Lake Superior, Morrisseau started to paint in 1959 after he received a "vision" telling him to do so. He is the first Indian to break the tribal rules of setting down Indian legends in picture form for the white man to see and the first Indian to actually draw these legends and design representative shapes to illustrate his folklore.

He felt that he was chosen to set down th egreat heritge of the Ojibway - to pass on, in some form of documentation, the traditions and life-force of his tribe before it finally disappeared forever. In 1960, he was discovered by Jack Pollack, a Toronto art dealer who brought 42 Morrisseaupaintings back to Toronto and sold them all within 24 hours. Today, a Morrisseau painting commands up to $15,000 and his original prints are eagerly collected.

Morrisseau is the founder of an art movement popularly called "Woodland Indian Art". He is to the young Ojibway painters and printmakers of Northern Ontario what Tom Thomson was to the Group of Seven - an artist who follows his own vision, and whom others follow. His works have been widely acquired for public and private collections in several countries.

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