Artist Edith Aklok
Title Untitled - Man and Bear
Media black stone carving
Size 2.75 x 3.5 x 2 in. / 7 x 8.9 x 5.1 cm.
Sold $60
Estimate $150 - $250
Notes
signed 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
Edith Aklok ~ [b.1931] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number W2-621, community Coppermine / Kugluktuk; listed on www.artprice.com