Great Collections of Norval Morrisseau Art (Part I)

~ Revisted/Revised

Kevin Hearn Vs. Joseph B. McLeod and Maslak McLeod Gallery Inc.
/Court File No. CV-12-455650/

"SPIRIT ENERGY OF MOTHER EARTH HAS NOT BEEN PROVED TO BE A FORGED OR FAKE MORRISEAU. FROM THE LAW'S POINT OF VIEW, IT IS THEREFORE A REAL NORVAL MORRISSEAU PAINTING."-

~ Justice Edward M. Morgan, May 24, 2018
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"TITLE NOT KNOWN," © 1970s Norval Morrisseau
(Acrylic on Canvas)
~ Collection of Westerkirk Works of Art; 
  Curator: Jessica Wilson
* This acrylic painting on canvas is signed by the artist with a dry brush (DB) technique on canvas VERSO  

 

"The Westerkirk Works of Art Morrisseau Collection is good news for Canada, great news for the protection of our shared cultural legacy, and a celebration of the most important Canadian artist of the past several decades.

Norval Morrisseau fearlessly brought us a whole new way of looking at the world, revitalizing the vision of Canada's First Nations in a visual language that even children can clearly understand. He spoke for an era, defining what it means to be Canadian - before his time, Morrisseau presented a major concern for the environment and humanity's place within nature, racial harmony, and the rights of Canada's First Nations"

Joseph McLeod (1928-2017)
/The late Director of the Maslak McLeod Gallery/

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Source (excerpt): New Book Examines Inspirations of Canada's Most Treasured Aboriginal Painter

~ For a background history of the above painting click HERE.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The following copyrighted section is an excerpt taken from, “theMorrisseauHoaxExposedBlog.com,” and used with permission from the author John Goldi CSC.

"The paintings had apparently been collected over many years, by the owner of the Elmwood Spa, Sherry Brydson, a passionate collector of Canadian fine art, who had clearly spared no expense to get the best paintings that were available. She had been advised in her collecting by the late Mr. Joseph McLeod, still regarded as the top expert on Norval Morrisseau’s art from the 1960s to the 1980s period. He had supplied many of the paintings through his gallery."

Excerpt from Article by John Goldi CSC, copyright 2013.

Source: http://themorrisseauhoaxexposedblog.com/2013/02/27/the-case-of-the-missing-paintings/#elm

Jessica Wilson is the curator. She’s with a Toronto company called Westerkirk Works of Art. She spent months tracking contact after contact, from company to individual, looking for Morriseau paintings.
“It’s amazing when you go from his early works to his later paintings,” she says, motioning with a nod toward the collection. “You realize that he would sometimes paint on anything that happened to be handy. For instance,” she moves to one wall, “this isn’t painted on canvas. He picked up an old cardboard poster, turned it over, and painted on that. ”

Moving further along, Wilson notes, “This painting is on brown paper. He didn’t always have canvas so he used whatever was available.”

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Source (excerpt): Cultural contacts


Morrisseau lived in the Red Lake district for 13 years and spent much of his time depicting Ojibway legends on birchbark, plywood, mill paper, and canvas, some of which can be found in private collections of local or former area residents.

Since his death in 2007 Morrisseau’s work has become well known around Canada and now Wilson says the unique style is spreading internationally.

“We really believe he is a pioneer with a truly unique style that is inspiring a whole generation and movement of artists and it is very rare to say that,” characterized Wilson when asked why study Morriseau.

“In our own country we are learning about how his art has spread into Europe and his style. People are collecting his work all over the world. We really believe he is more important than he has been given credit for, even though the National Gallery has given him a show, I think that you can’t do enough to promote his art work.”

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Source (excerpt): Studying Norval Morrisseau: Research project begins on well-known local artist

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