![Red is Beautiful is the first painting he ever sold, inspired by the geometrical designs of the Ojibwa crafts and traditional designs.](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/3287/8d9db263bd5f7b7d100f7d7576acb19a67b9a9ab/original/online-exhibitions-8-robert-houle-red-is-beautiful-1024x769.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sic2l6ZSIsIjM1MHciXV0%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
Red is Beautiful is the first painting he ever sold, inspired by the geometrical designs of the Ojibwa crafts and traditional designs.
![Sandy Bay 1998-99, is a 5-part display meant to be viewed left to right. Moving from photographic representation to abstraction. 2 photos are evidence of his residential school years.](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/3287/7018043af7bfe421475deb33485f878f1e5b3dbf/original/img-8403.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sic2l6ZSIsIjM1MHciXV0%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
Sandy Bay 1998-99, is a 5-part display meant to be viewed left to right. Moving from photographic representation to abstraction. 2 photos are evidence of his residential school years.
![Kanata - Houle appropriates a canonical image from a painting by Benjamin West (1738-1820). 'The Death of General Wolf' 1770 by copying the image in sepia-coloured conte crayon, and only paints the Delaware warrior.](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/3287/7f3da9c5c6f1ec1bfb49332464e7cce49a530cf4/original/img-8525.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sic2l6ZSIsIjM1MHciXV0%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
Kanata - Houle appropriates a canonical image from a painting by Benjamin West (1738-1820). 'The Death of General Wolf' 1770 by copying the image in sepia-coloured conte crayon, and only paints the Delaware warrior.
![Aboriginal Title 1763 - The Royal Proclamation, 1867 - the Canadian Confederation, 1876 - The Indian Act, 1982 - The Constitution Act.](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/3287/250bc221b765caf2df15e66f9616ad9fbe2d938a/original/img-8486.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sic2l6ZSIsIjM1MHciXV0%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
Aboriginal Title 1763 - The Royal Proclamation, 1867 - the Canadian Confederation, 1876 - The Indian Act, 1982 - The Constitution Act.
!["I come from Treaty No.l; Treaty No. l transformed the District of Assiniboia into the Province of Manitoba.](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/3287/d7dabb284e52699c91478a9c95c3936d60b7a7ec/original/img-8398.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sic2l6ZSIsIjM1MHciXV0%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
"I come from Treaty No.l; Treaty No. l transformed the District of Assiniboia into the Province of Manitoba.
!["Growing up in the 'rez in southern Manitoba in the 1960's, Pontiac was the family car that we drove down to the lake. It wasn't until high school that I learned about Pontiac, the Odawa chief who led a confederacy of eighteen nations against the British army in the summer of 1763, the year of the the Royal Proclamation.](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/3287/5a8dfeb997119a6570c53840202dd38061162e10/original/img-8421.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sic2l6ZSIsIjM1MHciXV0%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
"Growing up in the 'rez in southern Manitoba in the 1960's, Pontiac was the family car that we drove down to the lake. It wasn't until high school that I learned about Pontiac, the Odawa chief who led a confederacy of eighteen nations against the British army in the summer of 1763, the year of the the Royal Proclamation.
!['Premises for self-rule' is a series of 5 paintings with graphite inscriptions with relief-printed text and acetate film with lazer printed text mounted to white multi-ply board, juxtaposing abstract colour fields with colonial legal documents.](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/3287/53032f854171b461cc3ec241860b816f8eac9b98/original/img-8478.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sic2l6ZSIsIjM1MHciXV0%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
'Premises for self-rule' is a series of 5 paintings with graphite inscriptions with relief-printed text and acetate film with lazer printed text mounted to white multi-ply board, juxtaposing abstract colour fields with colonial legal documents.
![Muhnedobe uhyahuk (Where the Gods Are Present) represents the earth, light, sky and prairie landscape.](http://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/3287/79d23fd2070c6ef0acf587d0f207e5a4d90dbca5/original/img-8532.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sic2l6ZSIsIjM1MHciXV0%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg)
Muhnedobe uhyahuk (Where the Gods Are Present) represents the earth, light, sky and prairie landscape.