Author: W.P. Kinsella. Published by Stoddart Publishing, Toronto, ON., 1990, 1st Edition. Flat SIGNED by the artist Allen Sapp, and by the author W.P. Kinsella. Printed in Hong Kong by Book Art Toronto. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book. Like New Unclipped Dust Jacket, with slight cover curl top and bottom. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.25 x 12 inch, 133 pages.
TWO SPIRITS SOAR, celebrates the distinctive talent of the Canadian painter Allen Sapp, a Cree from Saskatchewan, and his relationship with Dr. Allan Gonor, mentor and friend.
Allen Sapp, specializes in paintings depicting native life as he remembers it on the Red Pheasant Reserve near North Battleford, with subjects ranging from social activities and farming chores to full-dress ceremon-ies. These remarkable examples of Canadian art might never have existed were it not for Dr. Gonor, a man of uncommon insight who early recognized Sapp's ability and encouraged him to paint from his own experience rather than trying to copy other artists' modes of expression.Β
W.P. Kinsella, a fiction writer well known for his attraction to native Canadian subjects, compares his own passion for writing, as he was growing up, with Sapp's similar youthful dedication to art. Kinsella then explores the productive relationship between Sapp and Gonor to provide a very satisfying picture of this unique and important painter's life and work.
1st Edition Hardcover & Signed by the Artist & Author
