Angus Trudeau (1905 1984) was an

Anishinaabe The Anishinaabeg (adjectival: Anishinaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe (including Saulteaux and Oji-Cree), Odawa, Potawatomi, ...

artist whose inspiration was drawn from the world of Manitoulin Island,

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, 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

commercial ships on

but devoted his spare time and retirement years to painting and model-building. 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. Trudeau`s work records

modern art and Trudeau`s part in mechanization. The

Isaacs Gallery Avrom Isaacs, D.F.A. (March 19, 1926 – January 15, 2016) was a Canadian art dealer. Career Avrom Isaacovitch, known as Av Isaacs, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and moved to Toronto with his family in 1941. Isaacs graduated with a bachelo ...

in Toronto gave him solo shows in 1976, 1978, and 1980, and he participated in numerous group exhibitions. 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, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, the

Thunder Bay Art Gallery The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is Northern Ontario's largest art gallery specializing in the work of contemporary Indigenous artists. It is located on the campus of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is ...

, the Art Gallery of Windsor, and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.

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