biography of Carl GAWBOY (1942)

Birth place: Cloquet, MN

Addresses: Ely, MN

Profession: Painter

Studied: Univ. Minnesota, Duluth, B.S., with Henry Pearson; Wisc. State Univ., Superior, with Len Petersen; Univ. Montana, with Don Bunse & Rudy Autio.

Exhibited: Arrowhead Art Exhib., Duluth, 1966; Scottsdale (AZ) Nat. Indian Art Exhib, 1972; Rainy River Jr. College, 1972; Theatre-in-the-Round, Minneapolis, 1972. Awards: Best in Show, Arrowhead Art Exhib., 1966; first in painting, Navajo Community College, 1972.

Work: Navajo Community College; also in many private collections in Minnesota. Commissions: murals, Ely Chamber Commerce, MN, 1960 & Minnesota Hist. Soc., St. Paul, 1972.

Comments: Preferred medium: acrylics. Publications: co-author/illustrator, Everything You Ever Wanted to Ask About Indians but Were Afraid to Find Out, 1971.

Sources: WW73; Gerald Vizenor, Everlasting Sky (Doubleday, 1972).