# Benjamin Chee Chee artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:56:47.036Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian, Ojibwe
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints

## Portrait

![Benjamin Chee Chee](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Benjamin_Chee_Chee.jpg)
Benjamin Chee Chee · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Chee_Chee

## About Benjamin Chee Chee

Benjamin Chee Chee (1944–1977), born Kenneth Thomas Benjamin Chee Chee, was a Canadian Ojibwe artist from Temagami, Ontario. Authority records identify him as an artist and painter, while the available biographical source describes his imagery as modern, simplified depictions of birds and animals. Those graceful animal subjects are the clearest documented feature of his public identity in this source pack. His career was brief, ending with his death in 1977, yet his name remains represented in international authority files including Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and the Library of Congress. Collectors may encounter his work through paintings, works on paper, and prints recorded in auction contexts. Because the available sources contain limited museum or estate scholarship, this page does not assign Chee Chee to a specific movement or expand his biography beyond the documented Ojibwe Canadian context, life years, and recurring bird and animal subjects.

## Common works and media

Collectors most clearly encounter Benjamin Chee Chee through paintings and works on paper featuring simplified bird and animal subjects. Appraisily's auction data also contains print and edition classifications, while some matched records fall into broader mixed-media, sculpture, or decorative-art categories. Those broad labels should be checked against the individual lot's photographs and description before identifying its medium. For prints and other multiples, edition number, inscriptions, signature, paper condition, and whether the work is an original multiple or a later reproduction are especially important distinctions.

## Market and appraisal context

Benjamin Chee Chee's public auction record should be assessed through closely comparable works rather than a single overall result. Relevant comparisons account for medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, edition information, provenance, attribution confidence, subject, and current demand. Appraisily's matched records place works under categories including paintings, works on paper, prints, mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions, although the broader categories require confirmation against each lot description. Reported prices may differ in their treatment of buyer premiums and fees. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may also be absent, so auction results provide evidence for an appraisal but do not determine value by themselves.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4888390
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/20771057/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500126542
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Chee_Chee
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Chee_Chee
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/benjamin-chee-chee/