Accession No
2012.77
Description
Lithograph print titled 'The Seasons', by Pudlo Pudlat, edition 45/50. The design represents the environment and Inuit life over the annual cycle, in a somewhat sprawling, but rich and engaging, and imaginatively composed (with a mix of top-down and side-on views. Includes images of igloos, boats, dog sled and birds
Place
Americas; North America; Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; Qikiqtaaluk region; Kinngait [Cape Dorset]
Period
20th century
Source
Art Fund [monetary donor]; Esmée Fairbairn Foundation [monetary donor]; Galerie d'art Vincent [vendor]; West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
2012.77
Cultural Affliation
Inuit
Material
Paper; Pigment
Local Term
Measurements
985mm x 705mm
Events
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 1976 (no. 61).
Gallery address: Galerie d’art Vincent, Château Laurier, 1 Rideau Street, Ottawa, OW, KIN 857 Canada.
Pudlo Pudlat (1916-1992) 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. Produced s art of the Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection 1986 (no. 32).
Produced at the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, in Kinngait, formerly known as Cape Dorset, is an Inuit village on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Event Date 14/11/2012
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Lithograph print titled 'The Seasons', by Pudloe Pudlat, edition 45/50. The design represents the environment and Inuit life over the annual cycle, in a somewhat sprawling, but rich and engaging, and imaginatively composed (with a mix of top-down and side-on views. Includes images of igloos, boats, dog sled and birds
Event Date 14/11/2012
Author: maa
Context (Display)
'Exhibited: The Power of Paper, Li Ka Shing Gallery, MAA, 14 February - 6 December 2015. Reproduced in the exhibition catalogue.
Event Date 18/2/2015
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson
Context (References)
Illustrated in Thomas, Nicholas, 2015. The Power of Paper" 50 years of printmaking in Australia, Canada and South Africa. Cambridge: The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Event Date 12/10/2020
Author: rachel hand
FM:266605
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