Kent Monkman, mistikôsiwak [Wooden Boat People]: Welcoming the Newcomers (2019)

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An acrylic painting depicting the arrival of European colonizers, with institutions of slavery and religion, to North America, clawing from a tumultuous sea onto land inhabited by Indigenous peoples. The artist’s alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, stares directly forward while reaching their right arm down to help a shackled Black man from the sea.
Figure 0.1 Kent Monkman. mistikôsiwak [Wooden Boat People]: Welcoming the Newcomers (2019). Acrylic on canvas, 335.3 x 670.6 cm. Accession Number 2020.216a. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Donald R. Sobey Foundation CAF Canada Project Gift, 2020. Image courtesy of the artist.
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  • creator
    Kent Monkman (First Nations, Cree, born Saint Marys, Ontario 1965)
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    Credit Line: Purchase, Donald R. Sobey Foundation CAF Canada Project Gift, 2020 | Image courtesy of the artist.