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#TCC-GT1201 Beautiful 2012 Acrylic paint on mat board original work of Garnet Tobacco titled "Thunderbird Child" 9" * 20" Garnet Tobacco, Cree Nation Garnett Tobacco was born on February 6th, 1964 in Manitoba a short distance from Winnipeg. His tribal affiliation is Cree and he takes the Buffalo as his family crest symbol. Garnet has been painting for over twenty years and occasionally embarks on carving soapstone. He apprenticed under a prominent artist who since passed away by the name of Isaac Bignell. His style and form greatly influenced Garnett who is preserving it to this day. Fluid lines, soft earthy tones in a simplistic background are all characteristics that have attracted many collectors to this Cree art form. The animals that are depicted are those common to the plains region such as bison, herons, eagles, and hawks. Garnett is a prolific artist who only creates original works. His friendship with his teacher, Isaac Bignell, was something he treasured, so preserving Isaac’s style keeps his identity alive for many to understand and collect. $325.00 |
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#TCC-GT1202 Beautiful 2012 Acrylic paint on mat board original work of Garnet Tobacco titled "Morning Prayers" 16" * 16" Garnet Tobacco was born in Manitoba. He comes from a family of five children and is full-blooded Cree. Like many Native-Canadian artists, Garnet is self-taught and his works seem to be much more vital and alive than many schooled artists. He combines brilliant colours with smooth flowing lines to produce works of great visual appeal. They are known to be in collections in Japan, Germany, Australia, Canada and the United States. Garnet Tobacco is one of a growing number of young aboriginal artists destined to revitalize, by visual expression, the cultural aspirations of the Native peoples of Canada. $325.00 |
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Item #TCB1011 Kwaguilth Speaker Mask by Gene Brabant 10 1/2" H. 8" W. Good Condition with Repair $475.00 Gene Brabant was born on October 16, 1946 in Victoria, British Columbia. He won numerous art contests throughout his schooling in Brentwood, Victoria and Nanaimo. He left school after grade eight because he knew that he was going to be an artist. His family settled in the community of James Bay in Victoria. Mungo Martin, the master Kwakwaka’wakw artist moved his family from Fort Rupert, on the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the same block as the Brabant family. The British Columbia Provincial Museum (now the Royal British Columbia Museum) had initiated the Thunderbird Park project and Mungo Martin was chosen as the master-artist and advisor to oversee the design and construction of the ceremonial longhouse and totem poles. The Thunderbird Park project began as a three project to replicate historic totem poles for outdoor display and build a longhouse which would be used for carving, educational studies and traditional ceremonies for the growing urban first nation population. The project continues to this day and it has financed many of the totem poles which represent Canada at International sites and Museum installations around the world. Mungo Martin’s son-inlaw, Henry Hunt also moved his family to Victoria and he joined the Thunderbird project in 1954. He later became the master carver in 1962, after his father-in-law’s death. Gene’s father was a professional musician and a close friend of the Hunt family. The neighbourhood would often be woken in the early morning to Indian songs mixed with Hank Williams. Gene began visiting Thunderbird Park when he was seven with his close friend Alex Hunt. The Hunt family studio grew into the Art of the Raven Gallery under the direction of Tony Hunt Senior. Tony offered Gene his first apprenticeship when he was fifteen year old and Gene finally accepted the offer when he was twenty-three. In the meantime he worked as a sign painter which would later effect his interest in the clean flowing lines of artists such as Willie Seaweed. He began carving with John Livingston who was also the gallery manager at the time. He carved in the Hunt family studio off and on between 1971 and 1980. Gene remains close friends with many of the artists began their careers at Arts of the Raven including Tony Hunt Jr. Gene has been trained in the Kwakwaka’wakw style but he often works in classical Nuxalk or Bella Coola style. His work is often interpretations of historic master works. He has traveled extensively to visit museums and study older pieces. Often, he will measure works with calipers to understand particular features of the masks. His paint style is influenced by Willie Seaweed, the great master artist, and his own training as a sign painter. The balance between detailed carving and precision painting makes a Gene Brabant piece both powerful from a distance and exact under close inspection. Gene has often chosen to work on the perimeters of the market although he has been included in many exhibitions and is represented in many private and corporate collections. |
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Item #TCB1013 Cedar Panel Carved with Thunderbird, Human and Salmon by Stephen Charlie 33" H. 12" W. Good Condition $125.00 Stephen was born in 1959 in North Vancouver, British Columbia. A member of the Capilano reservation, he is a Coast Salish native... Stephen began to carve in the early 1970's after spending his youth watching his grandfather, Dominic Charlie carving. He is presently carving with Salish master Stan Greene. Though Stephen has done many original paintings and drawings, he prefers to work in wood.
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Item #TCB1014 Wooden Cane Old carved wooden cane. Fine example. Ex-Seahawk $175.00 |
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Item #TCC1008 Original Contemporary Haida Argillite Carving Fine example depicting the raven that stole the Light inlaid with abalone. Carved by Neal Ryland of Haida Gwaii in 2009 $325.00 Kevin Neal Ryland was born in Masset, Haida Gwaii May 5th 1968 and continues to live and work on Haida Gwaii and is from the Raven clan. He has been carving argillite since 1990, and he creates jewellery, boxes, model poles and sculptures. He learned to carve from Mike Brown and celebrated argillite carver, Christian White. |
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Item #TCC1007 Original Contemporary Haida Argillite Carving Very nice workanship on this very fine example of a halibut inlaid with abalone. Carved by Neal Ryland of Haida Gwaii in 2009 $950.00 Kevin Neal Ryland was born in Masset, Haida Gwaii May 5th 1968 and continues to live and work on Haida Gwaii and is from the Raven clan. He has been carving argillite since 1990, and he creates jewellery, boxes, model poles and sculptures. He learned to carve from Mike Brown and celebrated argillite carver, Christian White. |
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Item # TCB1006 Haida Portrait Mask by Ed Simeon and Clint Work. 14" H. 12" W. Good Condition $875.00 |
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Item # TCB44 Early Museum quality carved wooden Salmon club. Carver E Adams from Lytton, BC. This carving is made of Yellow Cedar with abalone eye inserts, and contains the four effigies which consist of a Man, Bear, Eagle and Salmon. $250.00
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