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Photographic Practices – Comparative Images
Although crucial to Henderson’s artistic process, photography is never mentioned in the many newspaper articles about his portraits, perhaps because it may have, by the standards of the time,...
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Photographic Practices > Audio
Robert Phillips on photographic practices Following the earlier example of Paul Kane, through the 1880’s and into the 1920’s, many Canadian and American painters such as Edmund Morris, Frederick...
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Chief Shot on Both Sides > Audio
Chief Shot Both Sides was a member of the Blood Nation in Southern Alberta. The Bloods are one of four tribes that make up the Blackfoot Confederacy. The Blood Nation Reserve is the largest reserve in...
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The Marsh
This work is a large-scale exhibition canvas that shows the marsh at the end of Pasqua Lake, before the building of the Echo Lake Dam in 1941–2, located just east of the Henderson home in Fort...
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The Paint Shop
Henderson “always spoke of his studio as his paint shop,” and it was here that he spent a good part of his time working steadily. The studio was a substantial building, heated with a Franklin stove...
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Biography
James Henderson, born on August 21, 1871 in Glasgow, Scotland, is considered to be Saskatchewan’s pre-eminent first-generation artist. An early aptitude to sketch and draw led to an apprenticeship in...
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Evening
Henderson was fond of painting the Qu’Appelle Valley at different times of year and at different times of the day and night. His nocturnes often show the moon over the Qu’Appelle River near his studio,...
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CPR Locomotive in Winter
By fall of 1910, Henderson was providing illustrations for a monthly magazine, The Trail, first published in Regina, and then in 1911, in Winnipeg. The Trail was profusely illustrated and featured...
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Exhibition Catalogue
James Henderson: Wicite Owapi Wicasa, the man who paints the old men, documents the first thoroughly researched retrospective of works by the artist and is available for purchase at the Gallery Shop....
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