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Pollock Gallery fonds File
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Representation contracts

File contains copies of an unsigned contract between Norval Morrisseau and Jack Pollock for the Pollock Gallery to represent the artist (Sept./Oct., 1962) and a signed contract dated 2 April 1963.

Beliefs and legends

Item is a typewritten copy of an essay by Norval Morrisseau in the 1960s entitled "Beliefs & legends of the great Ojibwa nation."

Pollock Gallery records

File contains a financial statement for the artist (1963); lists of paintings with medium, dimensions and other information; cancelled cheques payable to Norval Morrisseau; and related material.

Clippings

File contains clippings (some photocopied) of reviews of exhibitions and other articles. Records are sorted chronologically.

Correspondence

File contains correspondence to and from Norval Morrisseau and Jack Pollock, exhibitors, clients of the Pollock Gallery and others between 1962 and 1981; with related material. File includes a copy of a document in which the artist gives his birth date as 14 March 1932. Records are sorted chronologically.

Notes and essays

File contains notes on his Ojibwa name and similar material by Norval Morrisseau; with material by others, including an academic essay and other papers on the artist and Indigenous Canadian art.

Photographs

File contains photographs of Jack Pollock in the Pollock Gallery, including one with clients in 1961. Photo credits: Herb Nott; The Citizen (Ottawa).

Regina v. Pollock

File contains legal correspondence and other material relating to a criminal charge brought against Jack Pollock for theft of paintings by Norval Morrisseau in 1973, and his subsequent acquittal.

Miscellaneous records

File contains an issue of Tawow (4:4, 1974) inscribed to Jack Pollock by Norval Morrisseau; undated photos of drawings; an unsigned watercolour; clippings; information about a rental property in France; and other material.

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