Artist Josie Pamiutu [Paperk] Papialuk
Title Untitled - Bird Life
Media felt pen on paper
Size 11.5 x 17.25 in. / 29.2 x 43.8 cm.
Frame Size 21.75 x 27.25 x 0.75 in.
Sold $220
Estimate $200 - $400
Notes
signed and inscribed with syllabics along bottom; framed
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
Josie Pamiutu [Paperk] Papialuk ~ [1918-1997] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E9-861, community Puvirnituq; see Inuit Artist Index, by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg.155; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.2, by Canadian Arctic Producers; listed 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