Showing posts with label inuit art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inuit art. Show all posts

Monday, June 21, 2010

Hebron horns

Musicworks No. 23, Spring 1983, Toronto
Cover: Inuit horn players in Hebron, Labrador (feature article Music of the Inuit). Musicworks was a quarterly audio art magazine compiled by Tina Pearson and John Oswald.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Jessie Oonark

Jessie Oonark: A Retrospective, Jean Blodgett and Marie Bouchard, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1986
(Oonark sewing in her home, 1973/parka, 1969/Big Woman, 1974/ Untitled (wall hanging), 1973/ Untitled, 1974/Oonark painting on a building, Baker Lake, 1968)
Don't let them worry you, they are only my dreams.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Inuit N.W.T.

Eskimo Carvers Of Keewatin N.W.T., Winnipeg International Airport (Sponsored by The Winnipeg Art Gallery in co-operation with the Department of Transport and the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources), 1964

Friday, April 30, 2010

Sculpture of the Inuit by George Swinton, McClelland and Stewart Inc., Toronto, (revised 3rd edition) 1999, (originally published as Sculpture of the Eskimo, 1972). above works by David Ikutaaq (Baker Lake, 1965), Pauli Uqitiuq (Wakeham Bay, 1965), Nutaralaq Akulukjuk (c.1950), Unidentified Artist (Baker Lake, 1966?), Various Artists (Repulse Bay, 1955-1964), Moses Nagyugalik (Baker Lake, 1968)

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Today's book market finds.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Pudlo Pudlat (Cape Dorset)

Pudlo: Thirty Years Of Drawing by Marie Routledge, National Gallery Of Canada, 1990. above drawings 1961-1980 (top image The Big Lemming (stonecut, 1961) from Inunnit, 1967) photo of Pudlo, 1961.

Pudlo Pudlat (Cape Dorset, Nunavut) 1916-1992

Monday, March 29, 2010

Black River Landscape 1 and 2 by Janet Kigusiuq, 1993. From Qamanittuaq, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, 1995

Janet Kigusiuq (Baker Lake, Nunavut) 1926-2005

Friday, March 19, 2010

Indian and Eskimo Art Of Canada, Ryerson, Toronto, 1971 (originally published by Ediciones Poligrafa, S.A., Barcelona, 1970) photography by Dominique Darbois
see "Indian" and "Eskimo"

Friday, March 12, 2010


Selections from The Twomey Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1972 (12 pages, staple bound)

Jerry Twomey was a botanist and geneticist who collected over 4000 pieces of Inuit sculpture in 20 years, beginning 1950. His collection was acquired by the Province of Manitoba and is housed in The Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Marion Tuu'luq (Baker Lake)


From Marion Tuu'luq, National Gallery Of Canada, Ottawa, 2002
above wall hangings 1976-1989 (felt, embroidery floss and thread on stroud or duffle)
Marion Tuu'luq (Baker Lake, Nunavut) 1921-2002