Benjamin Chee Chee
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| Born | March 26, 1944 Temagami, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Self taught |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Woodland School of Art |
Benjamin Chee Chee, (born Kenneth Thomas Benjamin) was a Canadian artist of Ojibwa [1] descent. He was born at Temagami, Ontario on March 26, 1944; and died in Ottawa on March 14, 1977.[1] His early life was troubled and he lost track of his mother, who he spent many years searching for. He moved to Montreal in 1965 where he developed his love of drawing, moving back to Ottawa in 1973. He gained fame as he developed his unique style of clear graceful lines with minimal colour of birds and animals giving sense to emotion and movement. After finally finding his mother and achieving success as an artist, he committed suicide in an Ottawa jail.
Benjamin Chee Chee was buried in Notre Dame Cemetery in Ottawa, Ontario.[1]
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- Articles with hCards
- Ojibwe people
- 1944 births
- 1977 deaths
- First Nations painters
- Artists who committed suicide
- Suicides by hanging in Ontario
- Canadian people who died in prison custody
- Prisoners who died in Canadian detention
- People who committed suicide in prison custody
- Artists from Ontario
- 20th-century Canadian painters
- Woodlands style
