Allen Sapp, RCA

Allan Sapp's canvasses, more than any other Canadian artist, center on family and community. Many have observed Sapp's extraodinary ability to paint the landscape and natural world around him. Max Wykes-Joyce (Art in London) saw Sapp as having "an acute visual perception"...a feeling for the land and for the life of the land is part of the artist's subconcious inheritance.
Sapp's awards are many - he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1985,that same year he received the Saskatchewan Award of Merit. In 1987 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada.
"The paintings of Allen Sapp reveal what a reservation means to those for whom it is home. Like Remington and Russell in the United States before him, Sapp is a historial chronicler of a life and society that will pass into history, recorded with the sensitivity of one who was part of it"...Zachary Walter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA