N.L. Mi’kmaw artist sells painting to the Smithsonian – CBC
Nelson White’s work Veteran Elder on its way to the National Museum of the American Indian
Jul 23, 2020
A painting by a Mi’kmaw artist from Newfoundland and Labrador has made it into the permanent collection of one of the United States’ premier institutions, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
“It’s very flattering,” said Nelson White, who has had to keep his accomplishment under wraps since its sale in February as the pandemic threw a few wrenches into the final Smithsonian paperwork.
“I’ve sort of been sitting on it, and the artwork has been sitting in my basement in a crate the last six months, knowing it was going to Washington, just waiting for those details.”
The details have since been ironed out, and White’s portrait Veteran Elder is destined for its new American home, already en route in a wooden crate to Washington, D.C.
