Noel Ducharme, (1921-1988) an Ojibway was born in Nipigon, Ontario and raised
in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was a self-taught artist who painted in the
Woodland style. His paintings, carvings, and silkscreen prints were
inspired by the legends told to him by his widowed mother while working
together on the traplines. He had a lifelong interest in drawing and
painting but turned to art seriously after an accident in 1967 on a Great Lakes
freighter left him with a broken hip. In 1973, he received the top award
at the McLaughlin Art Gallery show in Ottawa, presented a painting to Queen
Elizabeth II, and had a solo exhibit at the Kar Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario. Ducharme also exhibited with Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray, Roy
Thomas, and Joshim Kakegamic at the the Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre,
Thunder Bay, Ontario, in 1977. His work is in the McMichael Canadian
Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, and the Indian and Inuit Art Centre, Department
of Indian and Northern Affairs, Gatineau, Quebec.
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