“I don’t want to overstate how important Norval Morrisseau was to me.… I only had a couple of brief conversations. I saw him over a number of years and then he disappeared. And I found out he went to Ontario, or something like that. And I got him coffee once. But when I was asked, was there someone who had this influence? I though, oh, I could name someone in the New York art world, and, so on. But, then, I just thought deeper, and I remember that [Norval] was quite meaningful to me. And I guess he’s always there in some way. I don’t want to overstate it but I also don’t want to understate it either.”
Art & Influence
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Norval Morrisseau painting outdoors in Red Lake, ON, August 1966. Courtesy of Kinsman Robinson Gallery.