Tom Price (c.1860-1927) : the art and style of a Haida artist. ...

• Main Author: Glatthaar, Trisha Corliss
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2011
• Subjects: haida
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0102264; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0102264

The purpose of this thesis is to identify the art work of the Haida Indian artist Tom Price (c.l860 - 1927). It is not yet generally realized that Haida art was predominantly the product of only a small number of artists whose individual styles are distinctly recognizable. Much of the diversity in local and regional styles within Haida art can be explained by isolating and examining the works of the dozens of practising artists - discovering where and when they worked, how much they influenced the art around them, how traditional they were in their art, or how innovative. The immediate problem is to document these individual styles. Art has been collected from the Northwest Coast Indian t peoples since the late Eighteenth Century when the first explorers made trading contacts with the native people. But it was collected sporadically and at first only as a curiosity or souvenir art. In the late Nineteenth Century ethnologists began to collect the Northwest Coast Indian art for museums of anthropology and ...