Artist Kananginak Pootoogook
Title Uminqmuk #38/100
Media colour stonecut on paper
Dated
1973
Size 17 x 24 in. / 43.2 x 61 cm.
Frame Size 29.75 x 36.25 x 1.25 in.
Sold $1,900
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Notes
signed, titled, dated, numbered and inscribed 'Cape Dorset' along bottom; syllabics in stone upper left; framed
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Kananginak Pootoogook ~ [1935-2010] Inuit RCA
see biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers; included in Sculpture of the Eskimo, by G.Swinton, 1972; Arts of the Eskimo: Prints, by P.Furneaux, Signum Press, 1974; included in Cape Dorset Print Collection 1970, Eskimo Graphic Art; The Inuit Print, by the National Museums of Canada and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa, 1977; Inuit Artist Index, by the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg. 164, 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]; listed on www.katilvik.com disc # E7-1168