1939 | The Rise to Fame of the Inkameep Day School and its Child and Youth Artists
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- Chief Batiste George sends his grandson, Francis Baptiste, to the Santa Fe Indian School for a year to study Indian art. Upon his return, the Chief builds Francis his own studio on the Reserve.
Related Images:
- Catalogue Image: 1963-113-030, "Indian on Black Horse"
- Catalogue Image: 1967-028-066, Wolf Howling
- Inkameep students receive letter from Walt Disney Productions with gratitude for the original Christmas card they sent to Mr. Disney (Christmas 1938). In appreciation, the studio sends pictures for the students' bulletin board.
Related Images:
- Catalogue Image: 1963-113-011, "Four School Designs" - Anthony Walsh begins summer work on the performance of the Inkameep plays through study at the Banff School of Fine Arts.
- Paintings by Johnny Stelkia, age 13, and Netty Kruger, age 11, form part of a group of Indian exhibits on their way to the League of Red Cross Societies, Paris, France. The exhibit featured Stelkia's "Playing Out of Doors" and Kruger's "Winter Among the Okanagans".
- Anthony Walsh is elected an associate member of the Royal Drawing Society, London, England, because of the outstanding success of the children's artwork.
- Art is exhibited in Edmonton, Alberta and locally throughout the Okangan Valley.
- Walsh is invited by Professor Thomas McIlwraith to read a paper on the start and development of the art program at the Inkameep Day School. The conference was jointly sponsored by the universities of Yale and Toronto and was titled "The North American Indian of Today". Walsh took a small exhibition of Inkameep art to exhibit at Hart House at the University of Toronto.
- Chief Batiste George whose vision it was to start the Inkameep Day School on the Osoyoos Indian Band Reserve dies.
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