Artist Jeetaloo Akulukjuk
Title Untitled - Mother Nursing Boy
Media grey stone sculpture
Size 15.5 x 9 x 8 in. / 39.4 x 22.9 x 20.3 cm.
Sold $275
Estimate $600 - $900
Notes
unsigned; inscribed '11628' 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
Jeetaloo Akulukjuk ~ [b.1939] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E6-284, community Pangnirtung; The Inuit Print, by the National Museums of Canada and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa, 1977; Inuit Artist Index, by the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, pg. 8, 1990; Biographies of Inuit Artists, by the Canadian Arctic Producers, 1984; 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