Joe Fafard


1942 - 2019

Order of Canada, RCA

Etching, 2012
20 x 30 in

$1,600.00 Framed

Etching on paper, 1989
16 x 17 in

$1,700.00 Framed

Joe Fafard Biography

1942 - 2019

Order of Canada, RCA

Nationally and internationally acclaimed artist Joe Fafard was born to French-Canadian parents in the small agricultural community of Ste. Marthe, Saskatchewan. He attended both the University of Manitoba (BFA 1966) and Pennsylvania State University (MFA 1968). He was at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina from 1968 to 1974 and visiting lecturer at the University of California at Davis in 1980 1981.

Fafard was one of Canada’s leading professional visual artists and exhibited a wide variety of work across the country and around the world. He was recognized as being at the forefront of his art and he significantly raised the profile of both Saskatchewan and Canada on the international stage. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981; received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2002; received the National Prix Montfort in 2003; and in 2005, the Lieutenant Governor’s Saskatchewan Centennial Medal for the Arts.

In the early 1970s much of his sculpture used clay as a medium. In 1985 he shifted to bronze as his chief sculptural medium, successfully establishing a foundry in Pense. His insight and humour characterized his portraits of neighbours, farm animals, and famous artists that he came to respect as he learned his craft.

Etching, 2012
20 x 30 in

$1,600.00 Framed

Etching, 2011
8 x 11 in

$1,000.00 Framed

Bronze and patina, 2012
34 x 32 x 8 in

$31,000.00

Bronze and patina, 2012
32 x 44 x 16 in

$51,000.00

Bronze and powdercoating, 2016
42 x 48 x 16 in

$66,000.00

Bronze and patina, 2013
22 x 29 x 8 in

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Bronze and patina, 2015
19.5 x 15 x 7.5 in

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Bronze, 2015
17 x 13 x 7 in

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Bronze, Patina & Acrylic, 2018
27 x 17 x 13 in

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Ceramic, 1982
3 x 5 x 2.5 in

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Oil on Canvas, 1983
24 x 36 in

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Bronze, 1987
9 x 14.5 x 7 in

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Bronze, 1990
10.75 x 11.75 x 5 in

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Ceramic
1.5 x 3 x 2 in

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Acrylic, Bronze, Powdercoating, Gesso, 2015
27.5 x 11.25 x 10.25 in

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Bronze and powdercoating
10 x 20 x 10 in

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Bronze, Patina and Acrylic, 2018
35.5 x 14 x 6.5 in

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Bronze and patina, 2017
7 x 8 x 5.5 in

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Bronze, Patina and Acrylic, 2018
27 x 7.5 x 8 in

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