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Bill Reid. Haida bear. William Ronald Reid Jr. OBC RCA (12 January 1920 – 13 March 1998) was a Haida artist whose works include jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and paintings. [1] Producing over one thousand original works during his fifty-year career, Reid is regarded as one of the most significant Northwest Coast artists of the late ...
Bill Reid (1920-1998) was an acclaimed master goldsmith, carver, sculptor, writer, broadcaster, mentor and community activist. Reid was born in Victoria, BC to a Haida mother and an American father with Scottish German roots, and only began exploring his Haida roots at the age of 23. This journey of discovery lasted a lifetime and shaped Reid's ...
Mar 13, 2018 · Bill Reid lost his fight with Parkinson's disease on this day. He was 78 years old. Reid died March 13, 1998. Near the end of his life, McLennan said the ravages of Parkinson's had made his life ...
Bill Reid with Master of the Black Field No. 1 box, on which Reid’s Final Exam box was based, 1967, photographer unknown. Origins Bill Reid was born on January 12, 1920, in Victoria, British Columbia. His father, William Reid (1884–1943), was a hotelier at the time, managing an inn in Hyder, Alaska.
Iljuwas Bill Reid (1920–1998) was among them. Born into a mixed-race family in Victoria, B.C., and denied his mother’s Haida heritage in his youth, Reid would go on to become one of the most significant Northwest Coast artists of our time. During his fifty-year-long career he was prolific and articulate—creating nearly a thousand original ...
Dec 23, 2020 · Bill Reid, The Raven and the First Men, 1980, yellow cedar, laminated and carved, 188 x 192 cm (height x diameter). Collection of the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Walter C. and Marianne ...
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Oct 24, 2010 · Last Edited July 20, 2020. William Ronald Reid, sculptor (born 12 January 1920 in Victoria, BC; died 13 March 1998 in Vancouver, BC). An internationally recognized Haida artist, Bill Reid is frequently credited with the revival and innovative resurgence of Northwest Coast Indigenous arts in the contemporary world.
