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Native Artist Alex Janvier
Member of the Indian Group of Seven
Native artist Alex Janvier was a founding member of the Indian Group of Seven, an association of native artists of the Eastern Woodlands School that organized the Indian Professional Artists Inc. in Winnipeg in the 1970's.
Janvier was born in 1935 to one of the last hereditary chiefs of the Dene on the Le Goff Reserve in Alberta. Unlike most Indian artists of that era he received a formal art education. He graduated from the four-year program at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary and went on to instruct for a time at the University of Alberta's Department of Extension
His style is generally linear, abstract, and non-representational, but this image (available at the Red Kettle Gallery) was an earlier work. His style is generally linear, abstract, and non-representational, but this image (available at the Red Kettle Gallery) was an earlier work.From 1961 to 1977 Janvier, like Eddy Cobiness, made a political statement by signing paintings with his treaty number.
Selected Collections
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, On
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, QC
Cinader Collection, Toronto, Ontario
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Edmonton Public School Board, Edmonton, AB
Esso Emerging Artists Collections, Calgary, AB
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Lester B. Pearson Collection, Ottawa, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montral, QC
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, QC
