Ojibwa artist Benjamin Chee Chee was born in the Spring of 1944 in Temagami, Ontario.

At birth his name was registered as Kenneth Thomas Chee Chee. At some point in his youth he began using the name Benjamin. It was in 1973 that Daphne Odjig, Jackson Beardy and Alex Janvier had their ground breaking group show, Treaty Numbers 23, 287 and 1171 in Winnipeg. Benjamin Chee was influenced by his predecessors.  He insisted that he was “an Ojibway artist”.  But he rebuffed the idea that his images were symbolic.  He spoke of the birds and animals in his paintings as being “creatures of the present”.

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Limited edition print comes framed with non-glare glass.

Framed size: 28″ x 34″