Benjamin Chee Chee Print "GOOD MORNING" matted Signed reduction of line & image style. mounted on a 10 x 14 1/2" , cardboard, the print is 9 x 12.

Born in Temagami, Ontario, Chee Chee largely taught himself to draw and paint. Hi father died when he was 2 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 began in the early 1960's and has since become one of the important art schools in Canada Unlike many of his contemporaries, he painted in a style influenced by modern abstraction. While most of the young Woodland Indian artists were content to follow the style of the movements founder, Norval Morrisseau, in depicting myths and legends by direct and "primitive" narrative means Chee Chee pursued a more economical graphic style, a reduction of line and image more in keeping with the mainstream of international modern art. 

At the age of 32 and at the height of a new found success as an artist and printmaker Chee Chee died tragically by committing suicide.

Woodland Indian Art Card Series, stock # 9576. Distributed by Canadian Art Prints, Inc. 736 Richards Street, Vancouver, B.C Canada.