This art print features Denesuline artist Alex Janvier’s Morning Star, which is painted on the ceiling of a dome in the Canadian Museum of History. The centre of the piece represents the source of all creation, or the Morning Star, which the Denesuline people used as a travelling guide at night.
Janvier lived on Le Goff Reserve, in Cold Lake, Alberta, until he attended residential school starting at 8 years of age. He is often referred to as the first Indigenous modernist artist in Canada.
- The back of the frame includes a short bio
about the artist as well as a headshot
- Print alone measures approximately
18 x 14 cm (7 x 5.5 inches)
- Matted and includes a frame that is
36 x 30 cm (14 x 12 inches)
- Printed in Canada
