Artist George Arluk
Title Untitled - Three Seals
Media black stone carving
Size 2.25 x 6.5 x 5 in. / 5.7 x 16.5 x 12.7 cm.
Sold $85
Estimate $200 - $300
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
George Arluk ~ [1949-2023] Inuit
included on the Katilvik website, disc number E3-1049, community Eskimo Point; see George Arluk, by Canadian Arctic Producers, 1980; biography in Canadian Encyclopedia, pg.1-90, Hurtig Pub.; Sculpture of the Inuit, by G.Swinton, pg.250, McClelland Stewart, 1992; plus Shumiatcher Collection, Regina, Swinton Collection, Mulder Collection and Zazelenchuk Collection, Winnipeg; biography in Biographies of Inuit Artists, Vol.1, 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