Friends of Norval Morrisseau (Part VII)

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Gary Lamont
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Gary Lamont with Norval Morrisseau, Toronto, Ontario - 1985
~ Click HERE to view painting on the wall "Shaman with Medicine Turtle", 1985
/Click on image above to Enlarge/
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Mr. Gary Lamont a.k.a. Gary Bruce Thacky & Spirit Chaser*, was introduced to Norval Morrisseau by his father (step-father) Allen Heney (his biological father was George Lamont). His father had known Norval Morrisseau since beginning of the 1960s in Beardmore, Ontario (they were neighbours).
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Mr. Gary Lamont met Norval Morrisseau in 1980 when he bought six paintings from him because he needed the money. Norval Morrisseau came to visit him with paintings for sale on recommendation by Roger Onakanakis-Kek from McDermid, Ontario (near Beardmore by Lake Nipigon; he is now residing in Pays Plat First Nation Reserve on the shores of Lake Superior). Norval Morrisseau lived in Thunder Bay, Ontario and he would have come often to visit him in his Thunder Bay house and they would drink tea.
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Many times he would come to sell him paintings because he needed money for rent. Once he told him that he could have ask for more money for paintings of the certain size and artistic quality, and Norval Morrisseau agreed.
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Norval Morrisseau later moved from his house at McLaughlin Street at house, next to Mr. Lamont's, at Fitzgerald Street. Mr. Gary Lamont provided him with canvases, brushes and paint that he supplied from the "Painted Turtle Art Shop" in Thunder Bay. At the same time he started selling his paintings to people in Thunder Bay and that was beginning of their business relationship that lasted for more than a decade.
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>>> BLOG MASTER'S COMMENT:
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Mr. Gary Lamont a.k.a. Gary Bruce Thacky (Thunder Bay, Ontario) is an owner of the website www.woodlandartgallery.ca. He was a very close and very good friend of Norval Morrisseau who has always kept in high regard Norval Morrisseau from the very beginning of their relationship. Mr. Gary Lamont has a connection with the artist that goes back to the beginning of the 1980's and Norval Morrisseau was a family friend since the early 1960's (click HERE). All the paintings presented now and in the past on www.woodlandartgallery.ca are authentic pieces of art by Norval Morrisseau.
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* - Spirit Chaser was name given to Gary Lamont by Norval Morrisseau
----/for more information click HERE/
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>>> Source: www.woodlandartgallery.ca
/Website of Mr. Gary Lamont a.k.a. Gary Bruce Thacky & Spirit Chaser/
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>>> Reference posts:
- Friends of Norval Morrisseau (Part I) /Curtis Jonnie 'Shingoose'/,
- Friends of Norval Morrisseau (Part II) /Alex Janvier/,
- Friends of Norval Morrisseau (Part III) /Robert Lavack/,
- Friends of Norval Morrisseau (Part IV) /Yvonne Mason Reynolds/,
- Friends of Norval Morrisseau (Part V) /Duke Redbird/,
- Friends of Norval Morrisseau (Part VI) /Allen Heney/,
- Manipulative Nature of Gabor Vadas (Part I) /Ref.: Mr. Gary Lamont/
- Thunder Bay's Norval Morrisseau vs. Jack Pollock's Norval Morrisseau (Part III),
- Thunder Bay's Norval Morrisseau vs. Jack Pollock's Norval Morrisseau (Part VII),
- Norval Morrisseau Painting Techniques (Part III) &
- Norval Morrisseau Signature Study (Part XI).
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