Ancestral Portraits

The Colour of My People

By Frederick R. McDonald
Categories: Indigenous Studies, Art & Performance Studies, Art History, Art, History
Series: Art in Profile: Canadian Art and Architecture
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Paperback : 9781552380642, 105 pages, April 2002
Ebook (PDF) : 9781552382820, 105 pages, April 2002
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Table of contents

 

Preface

Acknowledgements

In the Beginning

In the beginning, there are only thoughts

Thoughts on First Nations Art, Some on Politics

Influences 1: My Grandfather, My Brother, and a River

Influinces 2: High School and Beyond

On the Art of Travelling

Worldly Encounters 1: Canada

Worldly Encounters 2: Australia

Segregations⁄Reservations On Personal Promises

Indians First ...

.. Then Commerce

Of Colour and Light

In the End, A Beginning

In the Other World Ancestors Still Talk

Other Thoughts on Other Things

Way Up North

 

Description

 

Ancestral Portraits is a retrospective of the art and life of Frederick R. McDonald, one of Alberta's most exciting Indigenous artists working today, and a celebration of a rich Cree heritage. With one foot in the world of his ancestral peoples and the other in the realm of contemporary Canadian society, McDonald paints from a unique perspective and uses his art to communicate the culture and spirituality of his ancestors.

Ancestral Portraits is a journey into the creative world of one of Canada's up and coming Indigenous artists.

 

Reviews

 

Vivid . . . [McDonald's] voice and brush are worth heeding.

—Francis W. Kaye, University of Toronto Quarterly