Portraits of the North: Art book/Coffee table book
4117654 Manitoba Ltée (Éditions des Plaines | Vidacom Publications
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The Manuela Dias book design and Illustration Awards - General illustrations category Alexander Kennedy Ishister Award for Non-Fiction Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award This is a truly unique book. It offers an incomparable glimpse into the experiences and history of more than one hundred First Nations and Métis elders from Canada's North —“the last generation born on the land.” These stunning graphite pencil portraits are rendered with love, respect, and painstaking detail, along with gripping intimate profiles assembled from oral accounts and anecdotes. Their poignant facial features, lines, and creases, weathered by the harsh outdoors and a lifetime of challenges, are like badges of their remarkable achievements, sustained resolve, inspired patience, and deep-set defiance to the hardships their people have endured for generations. The masterful realism of Kuehl’s work helps uncover the tales of these seasoned individuals—their many triumphs and trials—revealing in turn a greater portrait of life in the communities of Northern Canada, a compelling homage, and an enduring historical legacy.
About the author
Self-taught photographer and pencil artist Gerald Kuehl was born in Ontario and grew up in the community of Pinawa, northeast of Winnipeg. After studying at the University of Manitoba, he rediscovered his high school passion—drawing—and has since refi ned it into an astonishing craft. In 1997, a fortuitous trip to the First Nations community of Manigotagan, Manitoba, set in motion a twenty-two-year project that took the artist to the remote corners of the province, and ultimately, deep into the northernmost Canadian territory—Nunavut. Kuehl’s works have been showcased across the country. He has two grown sons and lives in Winnipeg with his wife, Sara.
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