The Woodlands School
Since 1945, three major styles - Inuit Art, West Coast Art and the Woodlands School - have emerged as most recognizably Canadian native art. Other artists, be they painters, carvers or whatever, contribute their personal visions of what it means to be a First Nations artist, but they don't fall into the above categories...more on them later.
Woodland art came into being following the successful launch of Norval Morrisseau's career in Toronto in 1962 and the success of Daphne Odjig, Jackson Beardy and Alex Janvier's show, Treaty Numbers 22, 187, 1171 a decade later in Winnipeg.
