"I think my painting reflects what people think and feel, rather than being an entity with a title and subject. It's an open type of painting that means something different to every person who sees it . . . I am an artist who happens to be an Indian. I am an Indian self that is identified with the Great Spirit and not with the art."

Lee-Ann Martin and Robert Houle. The Art of Alex Janvier: His First Thirty Years, 1960-1990. (Thunder Bay, Ontario: Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1993).

1964, watercolor on paper
Glenbow Museum, acc. 67.23.10

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