Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Innukshuit And Geese #12/50
Innukshuit And Geese #12/50
Media stonecut on paper
Dated
1963
Size 17.25 x 22.5 in. / 43.8 x 57.2 cm.
Frame Size 31.25 x 37.5 x 1.25 in.
Estimate $600 - $800
Notes
signed with artist's chop lower right; inscribed with syllabics and numbered along bottom; framed; creasing noted throughout
Provenance
The Yacowar-Petrie collection, 50 years in the making, comes from two longtime Calgarians now retired in Victoria, B.C. Anne Petrie was the award-winning CBC TV journalist [Petrie on Prime, etc.] and author [Gone to an Aunt’s]. English/Film Studies Professor Maurice Yacowar had a double stint at the University of Calgary, as the founding [and the first fired] editor of the student paper, The Gauntlet, then as Dean of Fine Arts.
Biographical Information
Pitseolak Ashoona ~ [1904-1983] Inuit RCA
see Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life, ed.D.Eber, Oxford University Press, 1971 and Inuit Artist Index, by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg.36; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.1, by Canadian Arctic Producers; Inuit Artist Index, by the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg. 36, 1990; Biographies of Inuit Artists, by the Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website