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Acknowledgements

From the Art Canada Institute
The Art Canada Institute gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the sponsors of this book, Phillip Gevik and Anonymous.

We thank the Founding Sponsor of the Art Canada Institute: BMO Financial Group.

Finally, we acknowledge the generosity of all those who support the Art Canada Institute and make our work possible.

From the Author
I would like to thank my father and mother, Carl Beam and Ann Beam, for educating me, loving me, and keeping me close to them. I am grateful to have learned about the power of art and creativity by watching their practice. I would like to thank my boyfriend, Dennis Corbiere, for supporting and encouraging me, being a father to Riel and Lux, and making life a joy to live. Deepest love to Riel and Lux. Riel, who was born on the same day as his grandfather Carl, and who shines as bright and brave. Lux, who carries traditions in our third generation of ceramic and clay work, and who lights up my heart!

Miigwech and thank you to Phillip Gevik and Gallery Gevik, who represent my father’s estate and always put our well-being first. Thank you for all your help with the complexities of the art world.

Thank you to the Art Canada Institute and Sara Angel for their work promoting Canadian art and supporting this publication.

Thank you immensely to Tom Smart, who assisted graciously with the text and answered any questions I had along the way.

Miigwech to the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (OCF) and Mary Lou Fox-Radulovich for supporting my father’s art in the beginning, and for providing a recommendation letter for me to attend art school in Boston. To all the staff of the OCF from then to now who do the tireless work of carrying culture and supporting artists: miigwech, miigwech, miigwech.

IMAGE SOURCES

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The Art Canada Institute would like to thank the following for their assistance: The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada (Henria Aton); Art Gallery of Ontario (Alexandra Cousins); Art Resource (John Benicewicz); Canada Council Art Bank (Saada El-Akhrass); Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (Katherine Marshall); Canadian Museum of History (Dominique Taylor); Carleton University Art Gallery (Patrick Lacasse); City of Toronto Archives (Ariella Elema, Paul Sharkey); Copyright Visual Arts (Geneviève Daigneault, Marcia Lea); Cowley Abbott Fine Art (Julia De Kwant, Anna Holmes, Patrick Staheli); Denver Art Museum (Dzifah Danso, Jennie Trujillo); Estate of Bob Boyer (Jonah Boyer); Estate of Norval Morrisseau (Cory Dingle); Estate of Ron Noganosh (Maxine Bedyn); Estate of Daphne Odjig (Stan Somerville); Estate of Carl Ray; Estate of Fritz Scholder (Lisa Scholder); Estate of Tess Boudreau Taconis (Lucy Medland); Gallery Gevik (Phillip Gevik); Garth Greenan Gallery (Jem Stern); Indiana University Press; Indigenous Art Centre, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (Stephanie Buckshot, Kevin Sakolinsky); John and Susan Horseman Collection/Horseman Foundation (Anastasia Kinigopoulo); Macaulay + Co. Fine Art (Sarah Macaulay, Nikki Peck); MacLaren Art Centre (Rachel Deiterding); McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Hanna Broker); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Marie-Claude Saia); Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Emma Myers); National Gallery of Canada (Raven Amiro, Laurence Breault, Philip Dombowsky); National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Nathan Sowry); Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (Naomi Recollet); Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Carmen Müller); Remai Modern (Jillian Cyca); Royal Ontario Museum (Nicola Woods); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (David Rozelle); Sault Ste. Marie Public Library (Kevin Meraglia); Tate Modern (Jennifer Carding); Thunder Bay Art Gallery (Meaghan Eley); Vignelli Center for Design Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology (Jennifer Whitlock); Washington State Arts Commission (Jonah Barrett); Wynick/Tuck Gallery (Lynne Wynick); Anong Migwans Beam; Viviane Gray; Robert Houle; George C. Longfish; Ken Lum; Gerald McMaster; Ken Rosenthal; Allan J. Ryan; Jaune Quick-to-See Smith; and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.

The ACI recognizes the additional private collectors who have given permission for their works to be published in this edition.

Credit for Cover Image

Carl Beam, *The North American Iceberg*, 1985. (See below for details.)

Credits for Banner Images

Preface: Carl Beam, *Artist and Eagle in a High-Tech Environment* (detail), 1980. (See below for details.)

Biography: Carl Beam, 1979. (See below for details.)

Key Works: Carl Beam, *The North American Iceberg*, 1985. (See below for details.)

Significance & Critical Issues: Carl Beam, *Joyce and Beckett*, n.d. (See below for details.)

Style & Technique: Carl Beam at the Olsen fast fire kiln he built at his aunt Maime Migwans’s home, 1986. (See below for details.)

Sources & Resources: Installation view of *The Ampoleta* at Artspace in Peterborough, Ontario, 1989. (See below for details.)

Where to See: Installation view of the exhibition *Carl Beam: The Columbus Project, Phase 1* at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, 1989. (See below for details.)

Copyright & Credits: Carl Beam, *New World*, 1990. (See below for details.)

Credits for Works by Carl Beam

*Adobe House*, 1992. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. Photo credit: Carl Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Albert in the Blue Zone*, 2001. Collection of Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Gift of Brian Foss, 2012. Courtesy of Carleton University Art Gallery. Photo credit: Patrick Lacasse. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Anne Frank 1*, 1985. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Artist and Eagle in a High-Tech Environment* (detail), 1980. Collection of the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Gift of Arthur and Doris Grant, 2002. Courtesy of the MacLaren Art Centre. Photo credit: Andre Beneteau. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*The Artist with Some of His Concerns*, 1983. Indigenous Art Collection, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Gatineau. Courtesy of the Indigenous Art Centre, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Gatineau. Photo credit: Lawrence Cook. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Autobiographical Errata*, 1997. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2010 (43087). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Autumnal Idiocy Koan #814*, 1986. Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Courtesy of the Canada Council Art Bank. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Bashmi Cri (Reduced to Ashes)*, 1999. Private collection. Courtesy of Gallery Gevik, Toronto. Photo credit: Justin Giallonardo. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Big Dissolve*, 2001. Collection of Steven and Mary Orfield. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Big Koan*, 1989. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Gift of George Sotirov, 2020 (49535). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Black Snake Pot*, n.d. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Burying the Ruler*, 1992. Collection of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchased from Ann Beam, 2011 (26/8828). Courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Photo credit: NMAI Photo Services. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Burying the Ruler*, 1992. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Burying the Ruler*, 1991. Collection of the Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau (2013.66). Courtesy of the Canadian Museum of History. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Burying the Ruler*, 1989. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Ceramic bowl (“Anne Frank 1924–1945”)*, 1987. Collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Gift of the Estate of Dr. Bernhard Cinader, Certified by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act (2001.168.11). Courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum. Photo credit: Miguel Hortiguela © ROM and Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Columbus and Bees* (from *The Columbus Suite*), 1990. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Purchased with funds donated by AGO Members, 1991 (91/51.2). Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Photo credit: AGO. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Contain that Force*, 1978. Collection of the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M’Chigeeng, Manitoulin Island. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Critical Autobiographical Mass*, n.d. Collection of Gallery Gevik, Toronto. Courtesy of Gallery Gevik. Photo credit: Justin Giallonardo. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Drawing for Voyage 1 (from *The Columbus Project*), c.1988. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Driver*, 2001. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2010 (43085). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*The Elders*, 1978. Collection of the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M’Chigeeng, Manitoulin Island. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Exorcism*, 1984. Collection of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council Art Bank Special Purchase Assistance Program, 1984. Courtesy of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Forced Ideas in School Days*, 1991. Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. Courtesy of the Canada Council Art Bank. Photo credit: Brandon Clarida Image Services. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Geronimo*, 1985. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2010 (43088). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Joyce and Beckett*, n.d. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Medicine ’84* (from *The Zeitgeist Suite*), 1984. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Purchased 1985 (1985.29.7). Courtesy of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Meltdown*, 1984. Collection of the Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau (1984-054-001). Courtesy of the Canadian Museum of History. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*New World* (from *The Columbus Suite*), 1990. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Purchased with funds donated by AGO Members, 1991 (91/51.1). Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Photo credit: AGO. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*The North American Iceberg*, 1985. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 1986 (29515). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Only Poetry Remains*, 2002. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2010 (43086). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Opus Nova*, 1983. Collection of the Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau (III-G-1496). Courtesy of the Canadian Museum of History. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Page from Carl Beam’s Paris sketchbook, 1985. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Parts of a Bird #2*, 1985. Collection of the Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau (1990-040-001). Courtesy of the Canadian Museum of History. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*The Proper Way to Ride a Horse* (from *The Columbus Suite*), 1990. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Purchased with funds donated by AGO Members, 1991 (91/51.5). Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Photo credit: AGO. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Raven*, 1983. Collection of the Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau (III-G-1497). Courtesy of the Canadian Museum of History. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Re-Alignment*, 1984. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2010 (43089). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Sauvage*, 1988. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2008 (42447). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Self-Portrait as John Wayne, Probably* (from *The Columbus Suite*), 1990. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Purchased with funds donated by AGO Members, 1991 (91/51.6). Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Photo credit: AGO. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Self-Portrait in My Christian Dior Bathing Suit*, 1980. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Semiotic Converts* (from *The Columbus Suite*), 1990. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Purchased with funds donated by AGO Members, 1991 (91/51.7). Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Photo credit: AGO. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Sitting Bull and Whale* (from *The Columbus Suite*), 1990. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Purchased with funds donated by AGO Members, 1991 (91/51.12). Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Photo credit: AGO. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Spanish Reunion ’88 Poster*, 1988. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Stellar Associations*, 1981. Indigenous Art Collection, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Gatineau. Courtesy of the Indigenous Art Centre, Gatineau. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Stuffed Fish & Deer Antlers*, 1983. Private collection. Courtesy of Gallery Gevik. Photo credit: Justin Giallonardo. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Summa*, 2003. Private collection. Courtesy of Gallery Gevik, Toronto. Photo credit: Justin Giallonardo. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Survivor of Education*, n.d. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Three Graveside Figures*, 1984. Collection of Gallery Gevik, Toronto. Courtesy of Gallery Gevik. Photo credit: Justin Giallonardo. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Time Dissolve*, c.1992. Private collection. Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Photo credit: AGO. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Time Warp* (detail), 1984. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2007 (42060). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Time Warp*, 1984. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2007 (42060). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*The Unexplained*, 1989. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2007 (42025). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Untitled (Buffalo Shields)*, 1979. Private collection. Courtesy of Gallery Gevik. Photo credit: Justin Giallonardo. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Various Concerns of the Artist*, 1984. Collection of Gallery Gevik, Toronto. Courtesy of Gallery Gevik. Photo credit: Justin Giallonardo. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Veni, Vidi, Vici*, n.d. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Voyage 1*, 1988. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Gift of the Council for Canadian American Relations through the generosity of Steven J. Orfield, 2010 (42947). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*The Whale of Our Being (Still Waiting for Godot)*, c.2003. Collection of Gallery Gevik, Toronto. Courtesy of Gallery Gevik. Photo credit: Justin Giallonardo. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*The Whale of Our Being*, n.d. Collection of Pauline Bradshaw. Courtesy of Cowley Abbott Fine Art, Toronto. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Whale of Our Being*, 2003. Collection of the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Purchased with funds from the Elizabeth L. Gordon Art Program, the Royal Academy for Art, and with support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program (2004.008.002). Courtesy of the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery. Photo credit: Susan McKinnon. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Whose Space Is It Anyway*, 2002. Collection of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchased from Ann Beam, 2011 (26/8827). Courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Photo credit: NMAI Photo Services. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Wing Primordial* (from *The Zeitgeist Suite*), 1983. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Purchased 1985 (1985.29.6). Courtesy of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Credits for Photographs and Works by Other Artists

*America: 500 Years, “I” is for Indian as “I” is for Invisible #2*, 1992, by George Longfish. Collection of Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, Purchased 1993 (WSAC1993.097.000). Courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission. © George Longfish.

Ann and Carl Beam’s wedding photo, taken at Camel Rock, north of Santa Fe, October 24, 1979. Photographer unknown. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam.

Ann holding Anong Migwans Beam at a prayer well in New Mexico, 1980. Photograph by Carl Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Ann Beam with her and Carl Beam’s daughter, Anong, n.d. Photograph by Carl Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Anong Migwans Beam at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1985. Photograph by Carl Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Anong Migwans Beam at the construction site of the *Adobe House* in M’Chigeeng, Manitoulin Island, n.d. Photograph by Carl Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Anong Migwans Beam in her father’s pottery (assumed), n.d. Photographer unknown. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam.

Antlers above the side doorway to the *Adobe House* courtyard in M’Chigeeng, Manitoulin Island, 1994. Photograph by Carl Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Archaeologist A.W. (Thor) Conway at a dig site in the Algoma region, c.1970s. Photographer unknown. Collection of Sault Ste. Marie Public Library Archives (2024.2.239). Courtesy of Sault Ste. Marie Public Library Archives.

*Artist and Shaman between Two Worlds*, 1980, by Norval Morrisseau. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2006 (41869). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Norval Morrisseau.

Barbara Migwans and Maime Migwans, Carl Beam’s mother and aunt, c.1942. Photographer unknown. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam.

*Beaverman*, 1977, by Carl Ray. Private collection. Courtesy of Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto. © Estate of Carl Ray.

*Blackwater Draw II*, 1983, by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. John and Susan Horseman Collection, St. Louis, Missouri. Courtesy of the Horseman Foundation. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

Carl and Ann Beam standing with a concrete piece from the artwork *The Whale of Our Being*, while awaiting a handler from Heritage Canada, n.d. Photograph by Anong Migwans Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Anong Migwans Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl and Ann Beam’s ceramic wares, n.d. Photograph by Carl Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl and Anong Migwans Beam at Arroyo Seco, 1982. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl and Anong Migwans Beam in front of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, 1992. Photographer unknown. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam.

Carl and Anong Migwans Beam in the garden of the *Adobe House* in M’Chigeeng, Manitoulin Island, 1994. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl and Anong Migwans Beam, n.d. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam with David Neel, Joanne Cardinal-Schubert, and Robert Houle speaking on a panel at the third National Native Indian Artists Symposium in Hazelton, B.C., 1983. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam at the Olsen fast fire kiln he built at his aunt Maime Migwans’s home, 1986. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam; his mother, Barbara Migwans; and his baby sister, Marjorie, on Manitoulin Island, 1946. Photographer unknown. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam.

Carl Beam holding an earthenware bowl, n.d. Photographer unknown. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam.

Carl Beam, 1979. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam in front of *Exorcism* in Thunder Bay, 1984. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam on scaffolding by the stained glass window he installed in his painting studio, n.d. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam pulling proofs of *The Columbus Suite* from his Praga press, n.d. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam speaking about residential schools at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1985. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam with a watercolour painting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2000. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam with his hominy corn harvest, n.d. Photographer unknown. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam.

Carl Beam working on *Big Dissolve* in his studio, n.d. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam working on clay and slips on the hood of a blue station wagon, 1981. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Carl, I Can’t Fit into My Christian Dehors Bathing Suit!*, 1989, by Viviane Gray. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Allan J. Ryan. Photo credit: Allan J. Ryan. © Viviane Gray.

*Collection*, 1954–55, by Robert Rauschenberg. Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, Acquired 1972. Photo credit: Ben Blackwell. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Constructing the *Adobe House* in M’Chigeeng, Manitoulin Island, n.d. Photograph by Carl Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Cover of *Altered Egos: The Multimedia Work of Carl Beam*, by Elizabeth McLuhan (Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art, 1984). © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Cover of *Carl Beam: The Poetics of Being*, by Greg A. Hill, Gerald McMaster, Virginia Eichhorn, Alan Corbiere, Crystal Migwans, and Ann Beam (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2010). Collection of the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Cover of *The Role of the Reader*, by Umberto Eco (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979). Courtesy of the Indiana University Press.

Documentation from the performance *I Like America and America Likes Me*, 1974, by Joseph Beuys. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Wiki Art. © Estate of Joseph Beuys / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Dominic Migwans, Carl Beam’s grandfather, c.1950. Photographer unknown. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam.

Exterior view of the Carl Beam retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada, 2010. Photographer unknown. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam.

*Fritz Scholder*, 1987, by Ken Rosenthal. Courtesy of the artist. © Ken Rosenthal.

Garnier High School, also known as the Spanish Indian Residential School, n.d. Photographer unknown. Collection of the Archive of the Jesuits in Canada, Montreal (CDA_D-3.4.2327). Courtesy of the Archive of the Jesuits in Canada.

*Grandfather Will Come Again*, 1987, by Bob Boyer. The Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Purchased with funds from the Canada Council Special Purchase Assistance Program, 1987 (1987.3). Courtesy of Remai Modern. © Estate of Bob Boyer.

*I Couldn’t Afford a Christian Dior Bathing Suit*, 1990, by Ron Noganosh. Private collection. Courtesy of Allan J. Ryan. Photo credit: Allan J. Ryan. © Estate of Ron Noganosh.

*Indian Power*, 1972, by Fritz Scholder. Collection of Denver Art Museum, Gift of Vicki and Kent Logan (2016.125). Courtesy of Denver Art Museum. © Estate of Fritz Scholder.

Installation view of *Carl Beam* at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, from October 22, 2010–January 16, 2011. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Carl Beam, installation view of *Time Warp*, 1984, in *Carl Beam* at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, from October 22, 2010–January 16, 2011. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa. Photo credit: NGC. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Transport of *The Columbus Boat*, n.d. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Installation of *The Columbus Boat*, n.d. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Installation view of *Renewal: Masterworks of Contemporary Indian Art from the National Museum of Man* at the Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art, October 1, 1982. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Installation view of *The Ampoleta* at Artspace in Peterborough, Ontario, 1989. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Installation view of *The Columbus Suite* by Carl Beam, 1990. Courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Installation view of the exhibition *Carl Beam: The Columbus Project, Phase 1* at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, 1989. Photographer unknown. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Invitation to the opening of the exhibition *Carl Beam* at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, 2010. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Joseph Beuys giving a lecture at Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, on April 4, 1979. Photograph by Gerhard Kaiser. Collection of Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Donation Archive Gerhard Kaiser, Berndorf, Austria. Courtesy of Galerie Belvedere.

*Kanata*, 1992, by Robert Houle. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 1994 (37479.1-4). Courtesy of National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. © Robert Houle.

Kenzan-style tea bowl, nineteenth century. Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Adaline Van Horne Bequest (1944.Dp.41). Courtesy of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Photo credit: MMFA, Christine Guest.

*Map*, 1961, by Jasper Johns. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull (277.1963). Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art. © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Marilyn Diptych*, 1962, by Andy Warhol. Collection of Tate Modern, London, Purchased 1980 (T03093). Courtesy of Tate Modern. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

Mimbres bowl, 850–1050. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2004 (2004.551.3). Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

*Ojibway Shaman Figure*, 1975, by Norval Morrisseau. Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Freda and Irwin Browns (2006.23). Courtesy of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Photo credit: MMFA, Brian Merrett. © Estate of Norval Morrisseau.

Poster for *The European Iceberg: Creativity Today in Germany and Italy* exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, February 8–April 7, 1985. Design by Massimo Vignelli. Courtesy of Vignelli Center for Design Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Photo: AGO.

*Pow Wow Dancer*, 1978, by Daphne Odjig. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Gift of John W. and Bernice W. Forster, Vancouver, 2022 (50467). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. Photo credit: NGC. By permission of Stan Somerville. © Estate of Daphne Odjig.

Recto of invitation to *Renewal: Masterworks of Contemporary Indian Art from the National Museum of Man*, 1982, presented at the Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art, featuring *Renewal*, 1980, by Carl Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Red Mangrove*, 2018, by Anong Migwans Beam. Collection of Gallery Gevik, Toronto. Courtesy of Gallery Gevik. © Anong Migwans Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

*Red Man Watching White Man Trying to Fix Hole in the Sky*, 1990, by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2012 (45529). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. © Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.

*Rita Letendre*, early 1960s, by Tess Boudreau Taconis. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Gift of the artist, 2007 (2006/463). Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario. © Estate of Tess Boudreau Taconis.

Tea bowl (*chawan*), mid-nineteenth century. Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Adaline Van Horne Bequest (1944.Dp.16). Courtesy of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Photo: MMFA, Christine Guest.

*Untitled (Language Painting)*, 1987, by Ken Lum. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchased 2000 (40367.1-2). Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada. © Ken Lum.

View looking south through the east leg of the wye connecting the University line with the Bloor-Danforth line, between Museum station and Bay station, June 27, 1963. Photographer unknown. Collection of the City of Toronto Archives / TTC Fonds, Fonds 16, series 1604, file 246, item 2056. Courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives.

Woman throwing a hatchet at *Exorcism* during the opening of *Altered Egos: The Multimedia Work of Carl Beam* at the Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art, 1984. Photograph by Ann Beam. Private collection. Courtesy of Anong Migwans Beam. © Estate of Carl and Ann Beam / CARCC Ottawa 2024.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Carl Beam : life & work / by Anong Migwans Beam.
Names: Beam, Anong Migwans, author. | Beam, Carl, 1943-2005. Works. Selections. | Art Canada
Institute, publisher.
Description: Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20240380622 | Canadiana (ebook) 20240380576 | ISBN 9781487103422 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781487103385 (HTML) | ISBN 9781487103392 (PDF)
Subjects: LCSH: Beam, Carl, 1943-2005. | LCSH: Beam, Carl, 1943-2005—Criticism and interpretation. |
CSH: First Nations artists—Biography. | LCGFT: Biographies.
Classification: LCC N6549.B4 B43 2024 | DDC 709/.2—dc23