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FIrst natIons
Benjamin Chee Chee
Cultural Background: Ojibway, Temagami Reserve, Bear Island Ontario
Born in Temagami, Ontario, Chee Chee largely taught himself to draw and paint. His father died when he was two months old and he lost track of his mother. One reason behind his drive for success as a painter was his ambition to be reunited with her.
He was a prominent member of the second generation of Woodland Indian painters, a native art movement that began in the early nineteen-sixties and has since become one of the important art schools in Canada. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Chee Chee pursued an economical graphic style, a reduction of line and image more in keeping with mainstream international modern art.
At the age of thirty-two and at the height of a new found success as an artist and printmaker Chee Chee died tragically by committing suicide.
Art CArds/MAts/FrAMes
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Bison
9579 Chee Chee Learning
9573 Chee Chee Sunbird
Chee Chee
9570 Chee Chee Friends
Chee Chee Good Morning
9572 Chee Chee Spring Flight
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Matted & Framed
9575 Chee Chee
Proud Male Swallows
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9574 Chee Chee Mother & Child
9577 Chee Chee Autumn Flight
9571 Chee Chee
9579
Matted & Framed
9578 Chee Chee Wait For Me
9104 Chee Chee Dancing Goose
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