"Mink and Goose I" Jackson Beardy
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Mink and Goose I
Jackson Beardy (Canadian, 1944-1984)
Print, signed in pencil and numbered 23 of 49. Framed.
Jackson Beardy was an Ojibway artist from Manitoba prominent in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1972, he was a founding member of the group known as "Professional National Indian Artists Inc." - often refered to as "The Indian Group of Seven" along with Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig and others. The group's signature style eventually came to identify the Woodland School of Art.
Beardy's work is deeply influenced by ideas about the interconnectedness of the natural world. Here we see the symbiotic - if predatory - relationship between the mink and the goose. They are both joined and separated by the river, each curving into the shape of the natural landscape. We also see the formal elements that mark the works of the Woodland School as distinctly modern in its melding of compositional elements and metaphor: balance and symmetry, (night and day, land and air, predator and prey).
Beardy's work is held by museums and important private collections across Canada and appears regularly at auction.
Provenance : acquired at auction by Bohaus Art;
23 x 29 inches in frame / 58cm x 74cm in frame