Title: FOUR DIRECTION
Medium: Acrylic on Acid Free Paper
Size: 24" x 20"
Price: $18,000.00
Water color series created from 2010 - 2018, forty of these paintings are housed internationally.
426 LAKESHORE ROAD, WIKWEMIKONG, ONTARIO MANITOULIN ISLAND, CANADA P0P 2JO APPOINTMENTS: james.mishibinijima@gmail.com Gallery: 705-859-1007 Cell: 705 - 927 - 8409 ***** VIEWING FEE:: A notification was posted last September 2023 that starting September 1st, 2024 - a one-hundred-dollar viewing fee will be applied to everyone who wishes to enter Mishibinijima Private Art Gallery and this payment is non-refundable and be made seven days in advance.
Medium: Acrylic on Acid Free Paper
Size: 24" x 20"
Price: $18,000.00
Water color series created from 2010 - 2018, forty of these paintings are housed internationally.
I recently spoke to a fine gentleman for the last three years, and he told me that a series of art appraisals needs to be filed.
He pointed out that the art in question will be displayed, and the owners would like you to speak with them and other dignitaries in attendance.
The following month, all files were documented, and the government wrote back, speculating that the government wants two independent art appraisals to submit this donation file. I am glad to help.
I presented all the files from the Mishibinijima Art Gallery for paintings that have sold, just to return, and the government requested only sales of Mishibinijima originals in the last eighteen to twenty-four months.
I shared Mishibinijima's incremental pricing and how it began in 1970 and arrived at the age of sixty-five. I gave up on all that and worked with the numbers I was most comfortable with because I can't make this art style any longer because of diabetes, but I have no problem creating native art because of the use of thicker lines.
I presented my recent sale to the art appraiser and must stand by that sales receipt. I wrote $200.00 per square inch on a mishmountain original and had another sales receipt of $100.00 per square inch for native art.
Some or most of my favourite Mishmountain originals are listed at $250.00 per square inch, which I shared with them. I would rather store it away than sell it. Art collectors ask me to reveal certain paintings stored in those art crates.
Resale of any Mishmountain or Native Art by Mishibinijima began at the square inch it was purchased, usually doubled in price, never going down, below the price it was purchased, reflecting vested interests.
I had this vision of selling art back in the 1970s, when some art collectors wanted to purchase at 50/50, just like gallery owners around the world, and I thought, "I'm going to change the way Mishibinijima Art is Purchased, protect the artist, and most importantly, the art collector."
This was a tough road to lead, finding sometimes there is no support in this, but I needed to focus, and today, it's a totally new picture. Mishibinijima is very fortunate that it only took a lifetime to build.
Operating a business in Germany from 1988 to 2002 and conducting art exhibitions all over that country, with art collectors who purchased Mishibinijima art styles, this art appraisal document is terrific news. It sets a standard for Mishibinijima art pricing.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 65" x 54"
Price: $5.5 Million
Earth Child: Humanity needs to love this planet the same way he or she love a child, diamond stone included, represents the spirit we become after we complete our human journey. Ojibwe pictographs illustrate many teachings we must follow and honour as they become first and stand for everything around us.
Note: This painting has over 50 thousand shares of colour.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30" x 20"
Price: $80,000.00
The Sacred Womb: A baby sees sunlight entering through the stomach, and this was my mother's favourite story.
I remember living inside a womb. At times, light was present inside the watery life now, and then this place was uncomfortable. I needed to move, as it was getting tight to move around.
I remember one time that something was happening as I was being push out into the human world and felt the cold air hits my skin and breathing through my nose I was in tremdous amount of pain, I was covered with a blanket that felt like burlap and place on the comfort of my mothers body after they did something to my nose.
I looked at the man who was doing things with socks up to his knees. The light was a shiny bowl, and the porcelain pan was white and cold.
My mom shared the medical doctor, who wore socks up to his knees. As I explained, the old hospital clinic was in Manitouwaning, Ontario. Many times, my mother asked me to tell this story.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 60" x 48"
Price: $324,000.00
Legend: The water carriers are the women in the native culture, who bring awareness into the human society that humanity needs to step up and protect this most vital earthly element because humanity ceases to exist without it.
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 65" x 54"
Price: $ 420,000.00
STATEMENT:
An elder named Dominic once shared as we sat by the bay of Wikwemikong: There's a bird who lives in and out of the water. It will dive deep to be with the water spirits and share what they say by yelling once it surfaces.
This elegant painting will share what the water spirits shared with the loon.
Medium: Acid Free Paper
Size: 28 x 20
Price: $1500.00
DISCLOSER: I just unpacked the last ream of 250 fine art prints of Pope John Paul II, and it looks like they will be sold out this year, 2025.
NOTE: With any fine art prints, even original works of art, never place any image with direct light, as it will fade the colours.
Legend:
I sat in our sacred lodge with the Late Vick Eagle Elk over the years, and I am saddened to see her enter the spirit world. Once during a very hot sweat lodge ceremony in a very dark place, light appeared through the ambers of the red-hot seat lodge rocks. When the water was poured into the sacred pit, I couldn't help but close my eyes and call out my name: James, keep your eyes open.
Note: I can no longer paint my most recognized Mishmountain art style as it requires one hundred percent good eyesight.
I've tried for four years now to see fine art detailing, but I no longer have it, and have no problem creating Native Art, as it requires thicker lines.
Diabetic retinopathy took its toll on my eyesight as well. It's a price in getting older, and my part in bringing a good understanding of this planet through this art style was genuinely remarkable. I thank all the people who have supported me through the years, and a special thanks goes out to the late Pope John Paul II, who allowed me to be in the Vatican Art Collection.
TREASURE ISLAND
2025 began with a good surprise with my personal art collection, which I named Mishibinijima Legacy Paintings.
I gave my personal art collectors the good news: I've sold Mishibinijima's Mishmountain Art Style at $200.00 per square inch, and I'm going to a thrilled family.
Mishibinijima's incremental pricing was first introduced in September 1972 following a presentation of the Woodland Cultural Art Collection at McMichaels Art Gallery, where the Indian Group of Seven was present.
Do you have any suggestions for Mishibinijima's first two art styles in which the Late Robert McMichael was present? As a young, upcoming artist, I don't know how to market this style.
James, you are many years ahead with this art style, as everyone has an art style of the late Norval Morriseau. I suggest seven dollars per square inch, which exceeds fifty cents next September. Keep doing that in the art world; it will eventually catch on because this is just the beginning.
Fifty-five years later, I had my first significant art sale to a serious art collector. Vested interests were discussed during the dialogue; I need to get one while you are still around. This sale represents all native art combined. You are at the top of the world and will be for quite some time. No one will ever come close to it, as many will mimic it.
As I always said, international business and trips are essential.
International art collectors look upon an artist who stays and exhibits inside their country as a hobbyist; the artist who exhibits internationally is considered a serious artist.
The saddest thing about this art style is that I had a goal of five hundred Mishmountains originals being done by the age of sixty-five. I only accomplished three hundred and forty-eight Mishmountain originals of different sizes. Fewer than fifty of those are collected in Canada. The originals are in storage, and twenty-eight of those are the best I have ever painted in my art career, and I knew a time of significance would come.
So, these documents of this significant sale are finding their way to art appraisers, and I am pleased with this accomplishment and have no one to answer to.
My personal Mishmountain Art Collectors are very happy.
Mishibinijima Art Gallery is slowly publishing the most requested Native and Mishmountains imagery. By the spring, summer, and fall public art viewing, all these autographed prints will be in the art market, leaving the 2023 - 2024 winter art season only open by appointment. These are the oversized fine art prints available thus far.
1. JOURNEY - Lithograph - $1500.00