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Artworks
CLAUDE DAVIDSON (1924-1991) HAIDA, MASSET
Model Totem Pole, 1980argillite, 14.25 x 3.5 x 3.5 in (36.2 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm)
signed and inscribed, "CLAUDE DAVIDSON / HAIDA BC".
LOT 77
ESTIMATE: $4,000 — $6,000
PRICE REALIZED: $4,080.00Further images
Claude Davidson, the grandson of the renowned Haida artist Charles Edenshaw and the son of Robert Davidson Sr., was Chief of the village of Dadens on Langara Island, Haida Gwaii....Claude Davidson, the grandson of the renowned Haida artist Charles Edenshaw and the son of Robert Davidson Sr., was Chief of the village of Dadens on Langara Island, Haida Gwaii. He began as a fisherman and took up argillite carving in the mid 1950s, encouraging his sons Robert and Reg to do the same. He was instrumental in organizing and supervising the raising of Robert’s pole in 1969, the first to be erected in the village of Masset in living memory. This fine pole depicts an Eagle seated upon a Bear holding the skil hat of a Raven, who has a Frog in its beak and sits atop a Beaver holding a stick in its paws.References: See the chapter on Claude Davidson (which includes an interview with the artist) in Leslie Drew and Douglas Wilson, Argillite: Art of the Haida (Vancouver: Hancock House, 1980), pp. 111-116. For other poles by Claude Davidson see Carol Sheehan, Pipes that won’t Smoke: Coal that won’t Burn: Haida Sculpture in Argillite (Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1981), p. 192
Provenance
A Vancouver Collection.
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