NORVAL MORRISSEAU (1932 - 2007) (nm)
Norval Morrisseau (1931 – 2007), known as the "Picasso of the North", was an important aboriginal Canadian artist who was born in 1931 on the Sand Point Ojibway reserve near Beardmore, Ontario & died in Toronto in 2007. He was renamed “Copper Thunderbird” at age 19 by a medicine woman after he was very sick & has signed his art works with this new name since.
For more info & links about his life & works see intro text. Norval is by far my favorite Canadian native artists ;o)
A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the sou... ... read more 
