Artist Simeonie Uppik
Title Untitled - Mama Bird
Media black stone carving
Size 4 x 3.25 x 3.5 in. / 10.2 x 8.3 x 8.9 cm.
Sold $120
Estimate $100 - $150
Notes
signed with disc number 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
Simeonie Uppik ~ [b.1928] Inuit
listed on www.katilvik.com disc number E9-84; community Belcher Islands / Sanikiluaq; Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website