Artist Pitseolak Ashoona
Title Rowing Home #34/50
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated
1980
Size 15 x 20 in. / 38.1 x 50.8 cm.
Frame Size 28.5 x 32.5 x 1 in.
Sold $375
Estimate $200 - $300
Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered, inscribed 'Dorset' and with syllabics along bottom; Dorset chop lower left; framed with archival mat
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Pitseolak Ashoona ~ [1904-1983] Inuit RCA
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1100, community Cape Dorset; 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