Clemence wescoupe biography examples

First Name: Clemence

Last Name: Wescoupe

Full Name: Clemence Wescoupe

Alternative Names: “Ozaa-Bines” which means “Brown Thunderbird”

Date of birth: 1951

Place of birth: Long Plain First Nation Reserve, Manitoba, Canada

Date of death: December 23, 2018

Place of death: Portage la Prairie General Hospital, Manitoba, Canada

Community / Heritage: Saulteaux

Sex: Male

Art Media: Silkscreen, acrylics, oils, screenprints, watercolours, gouache, serigraphs, lithographs.

Bio:

Clemence Wescoupe was a prominent Canadian painter and printmaker.

He was born at the Long Plain Reserve in Manitoba in 1951 of Saulteaux background.  His native name was “Ozaa-Bines”, which means “Brown Thunderbird”.

Wescoupe was largely self-taught and began to paint in 1971. He started printmaking after he was inspired by his friends, a group of artists in the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation, better known as the "Indian Group of Seven"