Artist Bernadette Ivalooarjuk Saumik
Title Untitled - Sturdy Muskox
Media grey stone carving
Size 5.25 x 9 x 4.75 in. / 13.3 x 22.9 x 12.1 cm.
Sold $250
Estimate $500 - $700
Notes
signed on bottom
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
Bernadette Ivalooarjuk Saumik ~ [b.1938] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E3-539, community Rankin Inlet