8 people arrested, charged in Norval Morrisseau art fraud investigation
Morrisseau, also known as Copper Thunderbird, was a self-taught artist of Ojibwe ancestry who is considered a trailblazer for contemporary Indigenous artists across Canada.Before his death in 2007, police say allegations began to emerge of people creating and selling art under his name and made in his distinctive Woodland School of Art style.
The artist’s official website says he was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1978 and was also awarded a posthumous lifetime achievement award in 2008.Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau says he is heppy sketching in the streets of Vancouver as he poses in front of one of his earlier paintings at a Vancouver gallery on Monday, May 11, 1987. The OPP say they have been investigating alleged fraudulent art that is being made and sold under Morrisseau’s name.
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