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Portrait of Tomson Highway [graphic material]

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Date:

1997.

Reference:

R11829-0-6-E, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3673487

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Portrait of Tomson Highway
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Date(s):

1997.

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Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting: acrylic on canvas, unvarnished; 76.2 x 76.2 cm.

Language of material:

English

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The accession consists of a portrait of the Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, and children's author Tomson Highway by Mendelson Joe.

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Karen Robinson Gallery
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Artist: Mendelson Joe, 1944-2013

Associated name: Highway, Tomson, 1951-
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Highway, Tomson, 1951- : Tomson Highway was born in 1951, in northwest Manitoba, Canada. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Music (with honors) from the University of Western Ontario, in 1975 and a B.A. in English from the same University in 1977. Highway is known for his plays which depict life on the reservation. He is the president of Native Earth Performing Arts, a professional Native American theater company in Toronto. He has served as producer, actor, stage manager and playwright. His Native Earth Performing Arts company is dedicated to the development of Native dramatic art.

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Any information requests or contacts with Mendelson Joe should be made through the Karen Robinson Gallery, 448 Star Lake Road, RR #1 Emsdale, Ontario, Canada P0A 1J0, Tel.: 705-636-7950
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Exhibition Title: About Face, Celebrated Ontarians Then and Now. Lieutenant Governor's Suite, Legislative Building, Queen's Park. Toronto. Ontario; 2013.09.17-2014.08.31.

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Portraits

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Private

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2006-00374-7
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
To be viewed with the assistance of an art archivist.

Volume [R11829]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [R11829] C-151896

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, archival reference number R11829-1, C-151896
Copyright: Mendelson Joe
Restrictions on use: none

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