"Norval Morrisseau - Shaman Artist" 2006

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- the first solo exhibition featuring a First Nations artist in 126-year history of the National Gallery of Canada
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© Steven Goetz
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National Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (2006/02/03 - 2006/04/30), Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada (2006/06/03 - 2006/09/04), McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada (2006/09/30 - 2007/01/14), Institute of American Indian Arts Museum (IAIA), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (2007/06/15 - 2007-09-03), National Museum of the American Indian, New York City, New York, USA (2007/10/20 - 2008/01/20)
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Note: Despite being widely recognized as the father of contemporary aboriginal art and despite the pleas of some influential people, Morrisseau did not become part of the National Gallery of Canada's collection until 2000. As early as 1972, Selwyn Dewdney, an influential anthropologist and art enthusiast who befriended Morrisseau in northern Ontario early in his career, pressed the National Gallery of Canada to buy some of the artist's work. The gallery refused.
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"I made a pitch at the National Gallery for inclusion of your work in the permanent collection but encountered deaf ears, Dewdney wrote Morrisseau. "It appears that if you're of Amerindian origin the proper place for your art is a museum!"
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