# Angus Trudeau

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{{short description|First Nations artist from Ontario (1905-1984)}}
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| name             = Angus Trudeau
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| birth_date       = 1905
| birth_place      = Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve, Ontario, Canada
[Manitoulin Island](/source/Manitoulin_Island), Ontario
| death_date       = 1984
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| citizenship      = [Wiikwemkoong First Nation](/source/Wiikwemkoong_First_Nation) and Canada
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| training         = self-taught
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| known_for        = [Painter](/source/Painter), model-builder of ships that were once on the [Great Lakes](/source/Great_Lakes)
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'''Angus Trudeau''' (1905{{sfn|Phillips |2010|p=361}} {{snd}}1984) was an [Anishinaabe](/source/Anishinaabe) artist whose inspiration was drawn from the world of [Manitoulin Island](/source/Manitoulin_Island), [Lake Huron](/source/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](/source/Lake_Huron) commercial ships on [Lake Huron](/source/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](/source/Anishinaabe) modern art and Trudeau's part in mechanization.{{sfn|Phillips |2010|p=361}}

The [Isaacs Gallery](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Thunder_Bay_Art_Gallery),<ref name="Thunder Bay " /> the [Art Gallery of Windsor](/source/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](/source/Crown-Indigenous_Relations_and_Northern_Affairs_Canada).{{sfn|Phillips |2010|p=361}}

==References==
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=== 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}}
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Category:1905 births
Category:1984 deaths
Category:20th-century Canadian painters
Category:Ojibwe male artists
Category:Ojibwe artists
Category:Canadian outsider artists

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