Leo Yerxa Edition VIII - Artist labels

Born in the Couchiching Reservation, near Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada, in 1947. Youth spent with the tribe of the Ojibway, education in Indian tradition and culture. After graduation from high school - studies in graphic design in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada..

Group exhibitions:
1974 CANADIAN INDIAN ART '74, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario.
1977 Links to Tradition, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Development.
1982 Renewal : Masterpiece s of contemporary Indian art from the Museum of Man, organised by Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1983 Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada organised by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Development, for UN-Headquarters , New York.

Individual exhibitions:

1974 Evans Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1975 Evans Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1978 "bingo," Wells Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1978 Guild of Craft, Montreal, Quebec
1979 Guild of Craft, Montreal, Quebec
1980 "Wind, Rain and Snow," Ells Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1983 "Last Snows in Spring," Nishnawbe Arts, Toronto, Ontario
1984 "Renegade," Thunder Bay National Exhibition Center and Center for Indian Art, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1986 Galerie Francis Alexandre, Ottawa, Ontario
1988 Galerie Francis Alexandre, Ottawa, Ontario


Public commissions:
Sketches for Olympic Medal series IV, 1976
Hemorial for Ron Shackleton, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Measurements and dimensions of labels list height before width. Personal signature of the artist. The bottles of the edition numbered 1 to 2700; they are offered in editions A, B, and C.



A) No. 1 - 100
One antique Schlegel bottle 0,75 l - Rheingau Riesling
1987er Hattenheimer Nussbrunnen - Kabinett
Qualitätswein mit Prädikat - Erzeugerabfüllung Balthasar Ress
with original silk screen print ( 13.5 by 11 cm ), coloured, signed and numbered by the artist, and label on back of bottle; plus one special print ( 33.5 by 9.9 cm ) in same design in deckle edge passe-partout and hand-gilded frame 43 by 36 cm.

B) No. 101 - 200
One antique Schlegel bottle 0,75 l - Rheingau Riesling
1987er Hattenheimer Nussbrunnen - Kabinett
Qualitätswein mit Prädikat - Erzeugerabfüllung Balthasar Ress
with original silk screen print label ( 13.5 by 11 cm ), coloured, signed and numbered by the artist and label on back of bottle.

C) No. 201 - 2700
One antique Schlegel bottle 0,75 l - Rheingau Riesling
1987er Hattenheimer Nussbrunnen - Kabinett
Qualitätswein mit Prädikat - Erzeugerabfüllung Balthasar Ress
with numbered artist label, offset print.