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Ancestral 6

Artist Meryl McMaster (Canadian Plains Cree, born 1988)
CulturePlains Cree, Siksika, English, and Dutch, Canada
Date2008
MediumDigital chromogenic print mounted on dibond
DimensionsImage: 33 × 22 inches (83.82 × 55.88 cm)
Sheet: 40 1/8 × 30 inches (101.92 × 76.2 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: Donald D. Jones Fund for American Indian Art, Sosland American Indian Art Acquisition Fund, and the Philip Family Fund
Object number2017.12
Markingsed. 2/5
Edition/State/Proofed. 2/5
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionSelf-portrait of the artist.Exhibition History

[RE]CLAIM: Indigenous Artists Reflect on Identity, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, December 14–June 16, 2019.

Provenance
Purchased from Todd Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Published References
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Copyright© Meryl McMaster
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