Gallery Phillip is pleased to offer an extensive selection of limited edition prints by renowned Aboriginal artist Daphne Odjig. Many of the works listed below have become
hard-to-find collectors items and were all featured in the national touring exhibition organized and circulated by The Kamloops Art Gallery. Itinerary:
- The Winnipeg Art Gallery: 22 April – 16 July, 2006
- Canadian Museum of Civilization: 18 January – 20 April, 2008
 Big One and the Bad Medicine Woman, 1974 serigraph, ed. 60, 46" × 31" |
 The Medicine Dream, 1974 serigraph, ed. 60, 44" × 31½" |
 The Evil Spell, 1975 serigraph, ed. 60, 32" × 42" |
 The Squaw Man, 1975 serigraph, ed. 60, 44" × 31½" |
 Nanabajou and his Daughter, 1974 serigraph, ed. 43/60, 46" × 31½" |
 Vision, 1976 serigraph, ed. 250, 26" × 20" |
 Dominic and Lucy, 1977 serigraph, ed. 10/75, 26" × 22" |
 Eagle Dancer, 1977 serigraph, ed. 75, 26" × 22" |
 Fun Dance, 1977 serigraph, ed. 20/75, 26" × 22" |
 Rhythm of the Drum, 1977 serigraph, ed. 31/75, 26" × 22" |
  Desire (Love Series), 1981 serigraph, ed. 125, 13" × 11" |
 Embracing (Love Series), 1981 serigraph, ed. 125, 13" × 11" |
 Loving, 1981 (Love Series) serigraph, ed. 125, 13" × 11" |
 Protection (Love Series), 1981 serigraph, ed. 125, 13" × 11" |
 Fetching Water, 1982 serigraph, ed. 125, 20" × 18" |
 Husking Corn, 1982 serigraph, ed. 125, 20" × 18" |
 Hide n' Seek, 1982 serigraph, ed. 125, 20" × 18" |
 Piggyback, 1982 serigraph, ed. 125, 20" × 18" |
 Life in Harmony, 1992 serigraph, ed. 75, 20" × 15" |
 Song of Spring, 1992 serigraph, ed. 75, 20" × 15" |
 Awakening (Love Suite), 1992 serigraph, ed. 100, 20" × 16" |
 Companions (Love Suite), 1992 serigraph, ed. 100, 20" × 16" |
 New Love (Love Suite), 1992 serigraph, ed. 100, 20" × 16" |
 And Some Watch the Sunset, 2001 serigraph, ed. 2/100, 28" × 24" |
 With Granny, 1982 serigraph, ed. 63/125, 21" × 18" |
 Devotion (Love Series), 1978 serigraph, ed. 49/69, 26" × 22" |
 Bundled and Ready, 1982 serigraph, ed. 63/125, 25¾" × 21¾" |
 Arms of Security, 1979 serigraph, ed. 29/95, 30" × 22" |
 Days End, 1982 serigraph, ed. 55/125, 25¾" × 21¾" |
 Spirit of Jerusalem, 1976 serigraph, ed. 250, 26" × 20" |
 Spring, 1979 serigraph, ed. A/P, 21" × 18" |
See also: Daphne Odjig – Paintings and Dawings
Daphne Odjig, R.C.A. – Artist Biography
Gallery Gevik, 21-Oct-2008
Celebrated artist Daphne Odjig was born in 1919 on the Wikwemikong Reserve, Manitoulin Island. Her heritage is composed of Odawa, Potawatomi and English roots, the Native aspects of which were revealed to Odjig as a child on sketching excursions with her grandfather, a stone-carver. He taught her the legends of her ancestors and the use of the curvilinear design for which she has become revered.
Odjig had painted for most of her life but it was in the 1960s that she began to exhibit a deliberately Native perspective in her work and, like her grandfather, felt compelled to try to instruct the young about their heritage. To do so, she began to focus her art-making upon the legends, joys and realities of aboriginal life, while simultaneously refining her signature style of vibrant colours, soft contours outlined in black, overlapping shapes and modernist, abstracted figuration.
Odjig became a founding member of the first Canadian Native-run printmaking operation, the Canadian Professional Native Artist Association, or the "Indian Group of Seven" as they were described in the 70s. By this time she was exhibiting her work several times a year and had already gained international exposure in the United States, Europe and Japan. Her numerous awards include honorary doctorates from Laurentian University and the University of Toronto, an appointment to The Order of Canada, election to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art and the 2007 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. In addition, she was presented with an Eagle Feather by Chief Wakageshig in 1978 on behalf of the Wikwemikong Reserve in recognition of her artistic accomplishments - an honour previously reserved for men to acknowledge prowess in hunt or war. Documentaries by the CBC, the National Film Board and Tokyo Television have been made about Odjig and she's completed commissions for Expo '70 in Japan, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the twenty-seven foot mural at the Museum of Civilization entitled The Indian in Transition.