About The Artist

Daphne Odjig (Beavon), born 1919 on the Wikwemikong Reserve, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. She moved to British Columbia in 1968, but returned to the reserve to teach at the Manitou Arts summer workshops in the early 1970's. In the late 1960's, she founded a Native artists group that included Norval Morrisseau, who has been influential on all the Woodland painters. Received the Order of Canada, 1987, an award conferred by the governor-general on a small number of Canadians to recognize exemplary merit and achievement. Many Honorary degrees. Many solo exhibits in France, Israel and Japan. Daphne's family name, Odjig, means fisher in Anishinaabemowin. This is a dark brown animal related to martens and weasels, nearly extinct because of its valuable pelt. Her father and grandfather were artists.