Astral Communication

Image:  Larger image in member area (click on image)
Medium:  Serigraph (color) on paper (S: 2∙Re∙Tse∙Tsa)
Edition size:  Limited to 150 (S: 2∙Re∙Tse∙Tsa)
Artist Proof:  Unkown
Paper size: Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tse)
Image size:  Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tse)
Year:  Unkown (estimate ca 1981)  (note 1)
Printmaker:  ALVO (S: 1∙Re∙Tse∙Tpe)
Code:  AU.8

Note:
1) One source has stated that the print was bought in 1980 or 1981.

Info needed:
- Existance of Artist Proof(s)
- Exact year of print
- Literature (official statements in books, magazines, exhibits, original
  promotion material)
- Additional info or reference material

Thanks to:
- Collector for providing me the image and most of the info. It made this repost (earlier post 2009-08-23) with new info possible.

Filed under: ALVO, Serigraph / Silkscreen , Unknown year

Spiritual Feast

Image:  Larger image in member area (click on image)
Medium: Serigraph on paper (S: 3+∙Re∙Tpm∙Tpp∙Tse)
Edition size:  Known (S: 3+∙Re∙Ri∙Tpw)
Artist Proof:  Unknown
Paper size:  Known (S: 3+∙Re∙Tse)
Image size: Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tse)
Year:  Unknown (estimate ca 1977)
Printmaker:  Great Grasslands Graphics Company (S: 1∙Re∙Tpe∙Tse)
Code: GU.2

Info needed:
- Existance of Artist Proof(s)
- Confirmation of the image size
- Exact year op print
- Literature (official statements in books, magazines, exhibits, original
  promotion material)
- Additional info or reference material

Filed under: Great Grassland Graphics, Serigraph / Silkscreen , Unknown year

Me And My Daugther Lisa

Image:  Larger image in member area (click on image)
Medium: Serigraph on paper (S: 1∙Re∙Tpm∙Tpp)
Edition size:  Known (S: 2∙Re∙Tpw)
Artist Proof:  Unknown
Paper size:  Known (S: 2∙Re∙Tse∙Tsa)
Image size: Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tsa)
Year:  Unknown (estimate ca 1977)
Printmaker:  Canadian Native Prints (S: 1∙Re∙Tps)
Code: CU.5

Info needed:
- Edition size of the Artist Proofs
- Confirmation of the image size
- Exact year of print
- Literature (official statements in books, magazines, exhibits, original
  promotion material)
- Additional info or reference material

Filed under: Canadian Native Prints, Serigraph / Silkscreen , Unknown year

Loon Totemic Spirit And Grebes With Human

Image:  Larger image in member area (click on image)
Medium:  Serigraph on Arches paper (S: 3+∙Re∙Tlb∙Tsd∙Tsa)
Edition size:  Known (S: 3+∙Re∙Rm∙Tle∙Tlb∙Tsd∙Tsa)
Artist Proof:  Unknown
Paper size:  Known (S: 2∙Re∙Tlb∙Tsd∙Tsa)
Image size:  Unknown
Year:  1976 (S: 3+∙Re∙Rm∙Tpw∙Tle∙Tlb∙Tsd∙Tsa)
Printmaker:  Triple K Cooperative Inc. (S: 2∙Re∙Rm∙Tle∙Tlb∙Tsd)
Code:  T76.6

Literature: 
- Page 168; Sinclair, L., & Pollock, J. (1979). The Art of Norval Morrisseau.
  Toronto, New York, London, Sydney: Methuen.
- Page 9; ROM Ethnology Department (1977). Contemporary Native Art of
  Canada – Silk screens from the Triple K Co-operative, Red Lake, Ontario
  (The ROM show, exhibition 15 May till 30 June 1977). Toronto: ROM.

Info needed:
- Existance of Artist Proof(s)
- Image size
- Literature (official statements in books, magazines, exhibits, original
  promotion material)
- Additional info or reference material

Filed under: Serigraph / Silkscreen, Triple K Cooperative , 1976

Children Of Light And Sound

Image:  Larger image in member area (click on image)
Medium: Serigraph on Johannot art paper
                 (S: 3+∙Re∙Ri∙Tpm∙Tpp∙Tsa∙Tse∙Tsm)
Edition size:  Known (S: 3+∙Re∙Ri∙Tpw∙Tsa∙Tse∙Tsm)
Artist Proof:  Unknown
Paper size:  Known (S: 3+∙Re∙Ri∙Tsa∙Tse∙Tm)
Image size: Known (S: 1∙Re∙Ri∙Tsa∙Tm)
Year:  1979 (S: 3+∙Re∙Tsa∙Tse∙Tsm)
Printmaker:  ALVO (S: 1∙Rm∙Tsm)
Code: A79.2

Remark:
This print is from an set of 6 Norval Morrisseau prints in a folio map. They are part of the French Limited Edition publication of the book ’The Art Of Norval Morrisseau’, published in 1979 (note 1). The others prints are:
- ‘Bird Speaks To These Children’, click here;
- ‘We Are God Within Ourselves’, will  follow later in this catalogue;
- ‘Serman To The Birds’, will  follow later in this catalogue;
- ‘Fish And Loons From Lake Nipigon’, will  follow later in this catalogue;
- ‘Woodlands Creatures’, will  follow later in this catalogue.

Note:
1) The English Limited Edition book set was published in 1979 with a
     different set of 5 prints, see U79.2 and U79.3 for the first 2 prints in
     this catalogue. The others will follow later.

Info needed:
- Existance of Artist Proof(s)
- Literature (official statements in books, magazines, exhibits, original
  promotion material)
- Additional info or reference material

Filed under: ALVO, Serigraph / Silkscreen , 1979

Ptarmigan

Image: Unknown

Medium:  Serigraph (color) on paper (S: 1∙Re∙Tse)
Edition size:  Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tse) (note 1)
Artist Proof:  Unknown
Paper size: Unknown
Image size:  Unknown
Year:  1992 (S: 1∙Re∙Tse) (note 1)
Printmaker:  Unknown
Code:  U92.3

Note:
1) As you can see, I have almost no information about this print. I have 1 (lost) source mentioning it is a limited edition (it’s a very low edition), made in 1992. Any help regarding this print is more than welcome.

Info needed:
- Image, a good photo
- Confirmation edition size
- Existence of Artist Proof(s)
- Paper size
- Image size
- Year of print
- Name printmaker
- Literature (official statements in books, magazines, exhibits, original
  promotion material)
- Additional info or reference material

Filed under: Serigraph / Silkscreen, Unknown printmaker , 1992

Bird Brothers And Sisters

Image:  Larger image in member area (click on image)
Medium:  Serigraph on paper (S: 1∙Re∙Tsa)
Edition size:  Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tsa)
Artist Proof:  Unknown
Paper size:  Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tsa)
Image size: Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tsa, calculated paper/image ratio)
Year:  1976 (S: 1∙Re∙Tpw∙Tsa)
Printmaker:  Unknown
Code: U76.1

Remark:
This print is signed ‘in plate’ (lower right vertical) with ‘Copper Thunderbird’ in Cree syllabics and hand signed in pencil (lower right horizontal) with ‘Norval Morrisseau’.

Info needed:
- Confirmation edition size
- Existance of Artist Proof(s)
- Confirmation paper size
- Confirmation image size
- Name printmaker
- Literature (official statements in books, magazines, exhibits, original
  promotion material)
- Additional info or reference material

Filed under: Serigraph / Silkscreen, Unknown printmaker , 1976

Ojibway Thunderbird

Image:  Larger image in member area (click on image)
Medium: Serigraph on paper (S: 3+∙Re∙Tpm∙Tpp∙Tse∙Tsa)
Edition size:  Known (S: 3+∙Re∙Ri∙Tpw)
Artist Proof:  Unknown, but likely yes (note 1)
Paper size:  Known (S: 2∙Re∙Tse∙Tsa)
Image size: Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tm, calculated paper/image
                       ratio)
Year:  1978 (S: 1∙Re∙Tpe) (note 2)
Printmaker:  Great Grasslands Graphics Company (S: 2∙Re∙Tpe∙Tsa)
Code: G78.2

Remark:
This print is from an set of at least 4 Norval Morrisseau prints. The others prints are:
- ’My Granddaughter’, click here;
- ‘Bear Spirit’, will follow later in this Catalogue;
- ‘My Grandson and the Birds’, will follow later in this Catalogue.

Note:
1) From ‘Bear Spirit’, ‘My Grandson and the Birds’ of this set, Artist Proofs
    exist.
2) 6 serigraphs of this set observed, 4 of them (the numbered ones) have
    1978 embossings and the 2 AP’s (see note 1) have 1979 embossings.

Info needed:
- Existance of Artist Proof(s)
- Confirmation of the year in embossing (see note 2)
- Literature (official statements in books, magazines, exhibits, original
  promotion material)
- Additional info or reference material

Filed under: Great Grassland Graphics, Serigraph / Silkscreen , 1978

Spirit Form’s Manifesting

Image: Larger image in member area (click on image)
Medium: Serigraph on paper (S: 1∙Re∙Tpm∙Tpp)
Edition size:  Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tpw)
Artist Proof:  Unknown
Paper size: Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tse)
Image size: Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tse)
Year:  Unknown (estimate ca 1978)
Printmaker:  Unknown
Code: UU.14

Remark:
The info source mentions a misspelling in the title, ’Manifasting’.

Info needed:
- Confirmation of the misspelling in the title
- Confirmation edition size
- Existance of Artist Proof(s)
- Confirmation paper size
- Confirmation image size
- Exact year of print
- Name printmaker
- Literature (official statements in books, magazines, exhibits, original
  promotion material)
- Additional info or reference material

Filed under: Serigraph / Silkscreen, Unknown printmaker , Unknown year

Shaman Conjuring Speech

Image: Larger image in member area (click on image)
Medium: Serigraph on paper (S: 3+∙Re∙Tpm∙Tpp∙Tsa∙Tse∙Tsm)
Edition size:  Known (S: 3+∙Re∙Tpw∙Tsa∙Tse∙Tom)
Artist Proof:  Unknown
Paper size: Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tsa∙Tse) (note 1)
Image size: Known (S: 1∙Re∙Tsa∙Tse) (note 1)
Year:  1979 (S: 3+∙Re∙Tsa∙Tse∙Tom)
Printmaker:  Unknown
Code: U79.3

Remark:
This print is from a set of 5 Norval Morrisseau prints. They are part of the English Limited Edition publication of the book ’The Art Of Norval Morrisseau’, published in1979 (note 2) in a wooden box. The others prints are:
- ‘Shaman And Apprentice’, click here;
- ‘The Dawn’, will  follow later in this catalogue;
- ‘Composition With Loons’, will  follow later in this catalogue;
- ‘Young Gulls’, will  follow later in this catalogue;

Instead of signing these prints as usual ‘Norval Morrisseau’, all 5 prints are signed ‘Copper Thunderbird’ in Cree syllabics.

Note:
1) The paper and image size are the same, there is no white border.
2) The French Limited Edition book set was published in 1979 with a
     different set of 6 prints, see A79.1 and A79.2 for the first 2 prints in
     this catalogue. The others will follow later.

Info needed:
- Existance of Artist Proof(s)
- Confirmation paper/image size
- Name printmaker
- Literature (official statements in books, magazines, exhibits, original
  promotion material)
- Additional info or reference material

Filed under: Serigraph / Silkscreen, Unknown printmaker , 1979