{{short description|First Nations artist from Ontario (1905-1984)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox artist | name = Angus Trudeau | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1905 | birth_place = Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve, Ontario, Canada Manitoulin Island, Ontario | death_date = 1984 | death_place = | citizenship = Wiikwemkoong First Nation and Canada | spouse = | field = | training = self-taught | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | known_for = Painter, model-builder of ships that were once on the Great Lakes }} '''Angus Trudeau''' (1905{{sfn|Phillips |2010|p=361}} {{snd}}1984) was an Anishinaabe artist whose inspiration was drawn from the world of Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron, Ontario where he lived. His paintings and model ships combine memory and history, tradition, and modern art.
==Career== Angus Trudeau worked as a sailor and cook aboard Lake Huron commercial ships on Lake Huron but devoted his spare time and retirement years to painting and model-building.<ref name="Thunder Bay " >{{cite web |title=Permanent Collection Spotlight: Angus Trudeau |url=https://theag.ca/tc-events/permanent-collection-spotlight-angus-trudeau/ |website=theag.ca |publisher=Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 2017 |access-date=2020-12-27}}</ref> His subjects — the lake freighters, ferry boats, logging camps and communities these boats supplied — are often portrayed through memory or through reference materials he collected such as old postcards, photographs, and other printed materials.{{sfn|Phillips |2010|p=361}} Trudeau's work records Anishinaabe modern art and Trudeau's part in mechanization.{{sfn|Phillips |2010|p=361}}
The Isaacs Gallery in Toronto gave him solo shows in 1976, 1978, and 1980, and he participated in numerous group exhibitions.{{sfn|Phillips |2010|p=361}} In 1986, Ian Thom for the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg curated the exhibition ''Angus Trudeau's Manitoulin'' which circulated across Canada. Trudeau's work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Sudbury,<ref>{{cite web |title=Angus Trudeau |url=https://www.thesudburystar.com/2017/02/04/art-show-in-sudbury-dedicated-to-the-superstack |website=www.sudburystar |publisher=Art Gallery of Sudbury, 2017 |access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton,<ref>{{cite web |title=Angus Trudeau |url=http://beaverbrookartgallery.org/images/annual_reports/Acquisitions_EN_Sept2016.pdf |website=beaverbrookartgallery.org |publisher=Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Annual Report, 2015 |access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg,<ref>{{cite web |title=Angus Trudeau |url=http://collections.mcmichael.com/search/*/objects;jsessionid=B0BA21D769BCC79B4D165F079E9490E7?filter=primaryMaker%3AAngus%20Trudeau |website=collections,mcmichael.com |publisher=McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg |access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> the Thunder Bay Art Gallery,<ref name="Thunder Bay " /> the Art Gallery of Windsor,<ref>{{cite web |title=Look Again! The AGW Collection at 75 Years |url=https://www.agw.ca/exhibition/482 |website=www.agw.ca |publisher=Art Gallery of Windsor, 2018 |access-date=2020-12-28}}</ref> and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.{{sfn|Phillips |2010|p=361}}
==References== {{reflist}}
=== Bibliography === *{{Cite book|last1=Phillips |first1=Ruth B.|title="First Nations Art, c. 1880-1970". The Visual Arts in Canada: the Twentieth Century| date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Foss, Brian., Paikowsky, Sandra., Whitelaw, Anne (eds.)|isbn=978-0-19-542125-5|location=Don Mills, Ont.|oclc=432401392 }} *{{cite book |last1=Thom |first1=Ian M. |title=Angus Trudeau's Manitoulin |date=1986 |publisher=McMichael Gallery |location=Kleinburg, Ontario|url= https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?N=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nu=p_work_normalized&Np=1&Ntt=angus%20trudeau%60s%20manitoulin&Ntk=Anywhere |access-date=2020-12-27}} {{ACArt}}
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