Gidansda Settee Fine Art Print by Jaalen Edenshaw (Haida)

Gidansda design:The Gidansda Settee is a piece that came out of Jaalen and Gwaai’s research into the works of the ancestral artist of the Great Box, a nineteenth century masterwork. The artists’ research took them to the Chicago Field Museum, where they were able to see another box made by this master, as well as a settee, a chief’s chair. This work combines a design adapted from the box front with the concept of the settee. Inspired by both of these pieces, Jaalen went on to carve one of the only chief’s chairs to be made in the last century in Haida Gwaii.

• Printing Technique: Serigraph, fine art paper
• Dimensions:19 1/2 inches tall by 30 inches wide
• Material: Serigraph, fine art paper
• Year:2017
• Limited Edition:This is a limited edition unframed art print out of 240 pieces

Meet the artist: 

Jaalen Edenshaw is a Haida artist from Masset, Haida Gwaii. Although Jaalen has pieces in collections and museums around the world, he considers his most important works to be the ones that stay on Haida Gwaii. He feels a great debt to his homeland and has worked to highlight the environmental importance of land and sea and the Haida way of being.