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Ink drawing on paper featuring a man dressed in a suit and tie with Northwest Coast formline elements | Donald Ellis Gallery

Study for "An Indian Game (Juggling Books)"

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, b. 1957
Cowichan and Okanagan
Vancouver, British Columbia

1996

ink on paper

height: 17"
width: 14"

Inventory # C4533

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PROVENANCE

acquired from the artist in 2001
Private Collection, Toronto, Canada

RELATED EXAMPLES

The canvas for An Indian Game (Juggling Books), 1996 has been widely reproduced including on Yuxweluptun’s own website; in Karen Duffek and Tania Willard, et. al., Unceded Territories: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, (Vancouver: Museum of Anthropology, UBC, 2016), illustrated p. 76, commentary on p. 28 & 32. Also illustrated in Marsha Lederman, "Yuxweluptun’s exhibition brings you face to face with indigenous history,” The Globe and Mail, 15 May 2016; Samia Madwar, “Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun exhibit captures Vancouver's surging interest in Indigenous art,” CBC Arts, 26 May 2016; “Vancouver Entrances: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Beau Dick,” Canadian Art Magazine, 14 July 2016. For the artist’s first major showing, see Charlotte Townsend-Gault, et al., Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Born to Live and Die on Your Colonialist Reservations, (Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, 1995); For the artist’s own commentary on his drawing process, see “Drawing” in Petra Wilson, ed., Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Neo-Native Drawings and Other Works, (Vancouver: Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, 2010), p. 7