Artist Jessie Oonark
Title Whales #41/44
Media colour stonecut and stencil on paper
Dated
1972
Size 8.5 x 11 in. / 21.6 x 27.9 cm.
Sold $180
Estimate $400 - $600
Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed with printer's name 'Nagyuqalik' along bottom; Baker Lake chop lower right; unframed; minor handling marks and creasing in margins noted
Provenance
from a private collection
Biographical Information
Jessie Oonark ~ [1906-1985] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E2-384, community Baker Lake; see Jessie Oonark: A Retrospective, by J.Blodgett, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1986; Arts of the Eskimo: Prints, by E.Roch, pg.24; Landmarks of Canadian Art, by P.Mellen, pg.76, McClelland and Stewart, 1978; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers; included in www.artcyclopedia.com; listed on www.artprice.com