A Cree Life : The Art of Allen Sapp

Hardcover with dust jacket, 127 pages (paginated to page 127), B&W and colour plates. Half-title page signed by the artist.

Jacket worn, rubbed at edges and corners, closed tears to jacket front, front flap price-clipped. Front free endpaper stained top and bottom, front paste-down bears gift inscription to previous owner, rear free endpaper bears tape residue. Title page verso discolored by ink from artist signature. Pages lightly age-tanned, many pages lightly stained, pp.43-44 creased at bottom corner, all plate images clear.

This volume contains more than ninety plates of art created by Saskatchewan Cree painter Allen Sapp. Most images depict life on the Red Pheasant Reserve (near North Battleford, Saskatchewan), and many are accompanied by brief commentary or reminiscences by Sapp. Together, Sapp’s paintings and recollections create a portrait of First Nations life in Saskatchewan in the early/mid-1900s. John Anson Warner and Thecla Bradshaw’s Introduction summarizes Cree history in Canada and provides a biography of Sapp, his rise to artistic fame, and his place in Canadian art history.

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