Norval Morrisseau's take on art criticism

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"Otter and Other Life Forms", © 1976 Norval Morrisseau
Original serigraph on Arches paper; 29.5"x35.5" (paper size) - 25.25"x30" (image size), Edition: 41 (Publisher: Triple K Co-opertaive, Inc.) /Click on image to Enlarge/
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"While visiting Norval at his home in Beardmore, Ontario in 1978, he playfully told me that he had painted this split-image of the otter as a spoof to the art critics of the era who were trying to intellectually define Aboriginal art."
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Michael Liggett, Calgary, Alberta
~ Native art dealer from the 1970s
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Additional notes: The above presented serigraph is signed, titled, dated and numbered along bottom; Published by the Triple K Co-operative, Inc. Native Owned Print Studio, Red Lake, Ontario; included in the Royal Ontario Museum Triple K Co-operative Art Show, 1977; also presented on page 167 in the book THE ART OF NORVAL MORRISSEAU /Lister Sinclair, Jack Pollock, and Norval Morrisseau/; ISBN: 0-458-93820-3 /Toronto, Ontario: Methuen, 1979./