Robert Davidson -- 1946, Haida art, Haida, Printmakers -- Canada, Printmakers, Indigenous prints, Prints, Indigenous art -- British Columbia, Indigenous art -- Canada, Indigenous art, British Columbia, Printmakers -- British Columbia -- Biography, Printmakers -- British Columbia 

"As the powerful traditions of Northwest Coast Indian art are rediscovered and reinterpreted by new artists, one of North America's oldest and most sophisticated art forms is being revitalized. Nowhere is this more clearly evident than in the work of Robert Davidson, a native Haida from the Queen Charlotte Islands off British Columbia's northern coast. Great-grandson of the legendary Haida carver Charles Edenshaw, Davidson was raised in a family proud of its heritage. As a young boy, he was encouraged to carve by his grandfather, and eventually became apprenticed to Bill Reid, another Haida artist of world renown.

Davidson's initial attempt to portray the traditional two-dimensional art of his people through silkscreen printing was tentative, but he persevered in a medium new to Northwest Coast Indian artists. His work soon showed a degree of mastery that augmented an already growing international reputation: before he was 30 years old, he had demonstrated carving at Montreal's 1970 Man and His World exhibition; been a delegate at the World Council of Craftsmen conference in Dublin, Ireland; carved by invitation in Berne, Switzerland, and seen his prints become prized collectors' items.

This beautiful book traces the first decade in the career of a remarkable young artist. It presents all his graphic works in chronological sequence and shows how they reveal Davidson's development as an artist, carver, jeweller, printmaker — and as a human being. Every Robert Davidson print, from his earliest work through 1978, is reproduced here in its original colours. Hilary Stewart's fine text takes the reader through the artist's early life, struggles and achievements while adding to the understanding of the 75 silkscreen prints by elaborating the circumstances which led to the making of each of them."--Book jacket. 

117 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. 

Contents:
Introduction --
Biography of Robert Davidson --
The Prints --
Some useful definitions --
Alphabetical list of prints.