Robert Davidson© "Moon" Embroidered on Red Wool Blanket

Northwest Native Tribe Artist Robert Davidson's unique Haida Beaver design embroidered onto blanket. The Moon symbolizes tranquility, guidance, and protection. PLEASE NOTE: This wool blanket has been discontinued (in all colors). However, artist designs can be put on any blanket available in the NW Tribal Art Collection, i.e., Country Lambswool, etc. Please contact us if interested.

We will be updating this NW Blanket Category so all Artist Designs can then be ordered directly online with your choice of blanket.

Please Note:  Designs can be embroidered onto any color blanket available. All made to order and take 7-10 business days, plus shipping. You will see a mock up proof for approval first.

• Size:  50” x 60”
• Artist: Robert Davidson 
• Design: Mood embroidered

About the Artist: 
Davidson is one of Canada’s most respected and important contemporary visual artists. A Northwest Coast native of Haida and Tlingit Descent, he is a master carver of totem poles and masks and works in a variety of other media as a printmaker, printer and jeweler. He is best known as an impeccable craftsman whose creative and personal interpretation of traditional Haida form is unparalleled.

Davidson was born November 4, 1946 to a particularly notable family of artists. His great grandfather was the famed Haida artist, Charles Edenshaw (1839 - 1924) whose superb artworks were well known in the Haida community. From an early age, Robert was surrounded by fine carving as his father, Claude Davidson and grandfather, Robert Davidson Sr. were respected carvers. Robert began carving at the age of 13 when his father insisted he carry on the family artistic tradition.

He moved with his family to Massett on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) in 1947 and lived there until 1965 when he moved to Vancouver to complete his education at Point Grey Secondary School. It was here that he first learned the fundamentals of silk-screening. In 1966 Davidson met the late Bill Reid, who then coached him on sculpture and design for the next eighteen months.

For more than fifty years now, Robert Davidson has worked as an artist and has produced an internationally acclaimed body of work. His work is found in a number of private and public collections and has received many honors.

Davidson’s Haida name is: Guud San Glans which means Eagle of The Dawn. He is a leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art and culture and currently lives and works in White Rock near Vancouver and Massett in Haida Gwaii.