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Garnet Tobacco
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Garnet Tobacco was born in 1964 at Moose Lake, Manitoba, 400 miles north of Winnipeg.
He comes from a family of five children and is full-blooded Cree. Like many
Native-Canadian artists, Garnet is self-taught and his works seem to be much more vital
and alive than many schooled artists. He combines brilliant colours with smooth flowing
lines to produce works of great visual appeal. They are known to be in collections in
Japan, Germany, Australia, Canada and the United States. Garnet Tobacco is one of a
growing number of young aboriginal artists destined to revitalize, by visual expression,
the cultural aspirations of the Native peoples of Canada.
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