Artist Lucassie Echalook
Title Untitled - Beached Fish
Media green and grey stone carving
Size 3.5 x 4.75 x 2.25 in. / 8.9 x 12.1 x 5.7 cm.
Sold $50
Estimate $75 - $100
Notes
signed and inscribed 'C83 CA' and 'IA-23259' 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
Lucassie Echalook ~ [b.1904] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-1582, community Port Harrison / Inukjuak; listed under Echaluk on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; listed on www.artprice.com; listed on www.artprice.com