Artist . Tuckyashuk
Title Man Watching Sea Animals #35/50
Media etching on paper
Dated
1963
Size 10 x 11.75 in. / 25.4 x 29.8 cm.
Estimate $300 - $400
Notes
signed, titled, dated and inscribed with syllabics along bottom; unframed; yellowing and creasing in margins noted
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
. Tuckyashuk ~ [1898-1972] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E7-1028, community Cape Dorset