Napachie Pootoogook | Sealskin buckets, 18/40, 1962/6 | 1962

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Pitseolak Ashoona, Night demons of sky and earth, 19/50, 1961/54, 1961

Stonecut, 24 1/4 x 36 3/4 in. (61.6 x 93.3 cm)

Printer: Iyola Kingwatsiak, 1933-2000 Pitseolak Ashoona was a prolific graphic artist. Her prints were included in the annual Cape Dorset Print Collection every year from 1960 until 1983, when she died. In "Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life," she said, "I know I have had an unusual life, being born in a skin tent and living to hear on the radio that two men have landed on the moon. . . . To make prints is not easy. You must think first and this is hard to do. But I am happy doing the prints." Pitseolak is the matriarch of an artistic dynasty. Her sons Kiugak, Kaka and Kumwartok Ashoona, were prominent first-generation stone sculptors, and her only surviving daughter, Napachie Pootoogook, was a talented graphic artist whose own daughter, Annie Pootoogook, carried on the family's artistic line. This early print is reminiscent of Kenojuak Ashevak's "Night Spirits" from 1960, but Pitseolak's version has a dynamic, unified structure, suggesting a more orderly community of spirits.

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Kenojuak Ashevak, Birds in my dreams, 6/50, Dorset Series, 1962

Stonecut, 23 1/2 x 31 1/2 in. (59.7 x 80 cm)

Printer: Eegyvudluk Pootoogook, 11931-1999

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Udluriak Manning, Under Sea Beast, 18/50, 1960/64, 1960

Stonecut and stencil, 24 x 12 in. (61 x 30.5 cm)

Printer: Iyola Kingwatsiak, 1933-2000 SOLD

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Parr, Walrus hunt, 10/50, 1964/59, 1964

Stonecut, 24 1/2 x 36 1/4 in. (62.2 x 92.1 cm)

Printmaker: Lukta Qiatsuq, 1928-2004 SOLD

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Pudlo Pudlat, Proud walrus, 5/40, 1963/3, 1963

Stencil, 24 1/2 x 17 in. (62.2 x 43.2 cm)

Printmaker: Eegyvudluk Pootoogook, 1931-1999 SOLD

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Lucy Quinnuayuak, Man Wanting a Seal, 47/50, 1964/10, 1964

Stonecut and stencil, 13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (34.3 x 44.5 cm)

Printer: Timothy Ottochie, 1904-1982 SOLD

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Parr, Seal hunter, 41/50, 1968/19, 1968

24 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. (62.2 x 43.8 cm)

Printer: Timothy Ottochie, 1904-1982

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Henry Evaluardjuk, The story teller, #6B, 1967
Linocut, 18 1/2 x 19 in. (47 x 48.3 cm)
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Henry Evaluardjuk, The story teller, #6B, 1967

Linocut, 18 1/2 x 19 in. (47 x 48.3 cm)

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Kenojuak Ashevak, Geese with Hawk [titled in Inuktitut], 1963
Engraving
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Kenojuak Ashevak, Geese with Hawk [titled in Inuktitut], 1963

Engraving

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Kiakshuk, Owl attacking snow goose, 10/50, 1961/8, 1961

Stonecut, 12 1/2 x 16 in. (31.8 x 40.6 cm)

Printer: Lukta Qiatsuq, 1928-2004 This stonecut is a complete departure from Kiakshuk's scenes of daily life. The hapless goose squawks in terror, about to be fast in the owl's talons. The owl's feathers are intricately patterned, in contrast to the white snow goose, visually suggesting a struggle between the forces of light and darkness.

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