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ORCA - CONSIGNMENT PRINTER'S PROOF #1/2
Edition Date: November 1997
Artist: Roy Henry Vickers
Medium: Serigraph Printers Proof
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- Story
Over thirty years ago I picked up a book called“Primitive Art” by Frank Boas. This book is about art from different countries around the world, with a selection on the Northwest Coast. This section contains a few drawings of Tsimshian sculptures and I was thrilled to see the art of my ancestors. There is one drawing in particular of a whale that I have enjoyed for all this time. This drawing has finally inspired me to create my own work called Orca and so I share this work with you today. So it is that this rendition of Orca was inspired by a work over a century old that was sketched by an observer and published in a book. The four Orcas represent the four seasons of the world and the four generations from the time of European contact with my father’s people to myself.
Story
Over thirty years ago I picked up a book called“Primitive Art” by Frank Boas. This book is about art from different countries around the world, with a selection on the Northwest Coast. This section contains a few drawings of Tsimshian sculptures and I was thrilled to see the art of my ancestors. There is one drawing in particular of a whale that I have enjoyed for all this time. This drawing has finally inspired me to create my own work called Orca and so I share this work with you today. So it is that this rendition of Orca was inspired by a work over a century old that was sketched by an observer and published in a book. The four Orcas represent the four seasons of the world and the four generations from the time of European contact with my father’s people to myself.