Artist Abraham [Ruben] Apakark Anghik
Title Untitled - Embossed Bird
Media green stone carving
Size 7 x 8.5 x 5.5 in. / 17.8 x 21.6 x 14 cm.
Estimate $500 - $700
Notes
signed and dated on bottom of bird; handling marks 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
Abraham [Ruben] Apakark Anghik ~ [b.1951] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number W3-1205, community Paulatuk; artist listed in Inuit Artist Index - January 1990, pg.19, pub. by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; the artist lives on Salt Spring Island; 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