Context (CMS Context)
Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process. Part of the Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection 1986 (no. 32). The artist lived from 1915 to 1992. Gallery address: Galerie d’art Vincent, Château Laurier, 1 Rideau Street, Ottawa, OW, KIN 857 Canada.

Pudlo was an important artist, the first (and to date, the only) Inuit artist to be given a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada, in 1989. His 1976 lithograph, Aeroplane, was the first Inuit print to depict modern technologies, and it was later featured on a Canadian postage stamp. Pudlo returned to this theme on a number of occasions and added helicopters, ships, power cables, and so forth. This is a strong and engaging example of this strand of his work, and invites comparison with the Papua New Guinean artist Kauage's helicopter and aeroplane imagery. Presented by the Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Event Date 14/11/2012
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Lithograph titled 'Imposed Migration'. 43/50. Print shows a walrus, a polar bear, and a musk ox suspended from an orange helicopter.
Event Date 14/11/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Noted in the Power of Paper catalogue as a walrus, a polar bear and a protectively wrapped caribou. This is based on the incorrect attribution on the database catalogue record, which has now been updated from a caribou to a musk ox.
Event Date 24/2/2015
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (CMS Context)
'On display in the LKS Gallery as part of Power of Paper, February 14th 2015 - February 2016. Reproduced in the exhibition catalogue. 06/02/2015 E.Wilkinson'
Event Date 6/2/2015
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
A version of this lithograph formed part of the British Museum's exhibition Arctic culture and climate (22 October 2020 – 21 February 2021).

The exhibition label noted 'Imposed Migration, 1986
Pudlo Pudlat (1916–1992), Baffin Island, Nunavut
In this lithograph, a walrus, a polar bear and a muskox hang from a military helicopter. During the Cold War (1947–1991), the Canadian government asserted its sovereignty in the far north by relocating Inuit families there. Pudlat captures the tragic absurdity of this 1953 programme, requiring families to learn to live in a completely different environment. They suffered hunger, extreme cold and poverty. In 2010, Canada apologised for
this treatment.
Inuit, Canada
British Museum'
Event Date 22/10/2020
Author: Rachel Hand