The Blind Man and the Loon: The Story of a Tale
2013Mishler, Craig
285 pages (color)
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1935 Ikerasak, Nunavut, Canada - 2010 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Known for: Inuit drawing, carving, sculpture, printmaking.
Kananginak Pootoogook was an Inuit sculptor and printmaker who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, in Canada. He died as a result of complications related to surgery for lung cancer. Pootoogook was born... Read full biography
Kananginak Pootoogook was an Inuit sculptor and printmaker who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, in Canada. He died as a result of complications related to surgery for lung cancer. Pootoogook was born at a traditional Inuit camp called Ikerasak, near Cape Dorset, Nunavut (then in the Northwest... Read full biography
Kananginak Pootoogook was an Inuit sculptor and printmaker who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, in Canada. He died as a result of complications related to surgery for lung cancer. Pootoogook was born at a traditional Inuit camp called Ikerasak, near Cape Dorset, Nunavut (then in the Northwest Territories) to Josephie Pootoogook, leader of the camp, and Sarah Ningeokuluk. The family lived a traditional lifestyle hunting and trapping while living in an iglu in the winter and a sod house in the... Read full biography
Kananginak Pootoogook was an Inuit sculptor and printmaker who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, in Canada. He died as a result of complications related to surgery for lung cancer. Pootoogook was born at a traditional Inuit camp called Ikerasak, near Cape Dorset, Nunavut (then in the Northwest Territories) to Josephie Pootoogook, leader of the camp, and Sarah Ningeokuluk. The family lived a traditional lifestyle hunting and trapping while living in an iglu in the winter and a sod house in the summer and did not move into their first southern style house until 1942. In 1957 Pootoogook married Shooyoo, moved to Cape Dorset and began work for James Houston. Originally, Pootoogook did some carving, made prints and lithographs for other artists.... Read full biography
Kananginak Pootoogook was an Inuit sculptor and printmaker who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, in Canada. He died as a result of complications related to surgery for lung cancer. Pootoogook was born at a traditional Inuit camp called Ikerasak, near Cape Dorset, Nunavut (then in the Northwest Territories) to Josephie Pootoogook, leader of the camp, and Sarah Ningeokuluk. The family lived a traditional lifestyle hunting and trapping while living in an iglu in the winter and a sod house in the summer and did not move into their first southern style house until 1942. In 1957 Pootoogook married Shooyoo, moved to Cape Dorset and began work for James Houston. Originally, Pootoogook did some carving, made prints and lithographs for other artists. At the same time he was a leader in setting up the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, the first Inuit owned co-op, now part of the Arctic Co... Read full biography
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Hunters, Carvers & Collectors: The Chauncey C. Nash Collection of Inuit Art (The Peabody Museum)
2012
(Exhibition catalog)Lutz, Maija M.148 pages (color)Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives That Changed Canada
2012Martin, Sandra429 pages (color)In the Shadow of the Sun: Perspectives on Contemporary Native Art (Canadian Museum of Civilization)
1993
(Exhibition catalog)McMaster, Gerald et al538 pagesAgnes Etherington Art Centre: Exhibitions in Review, 1987-1988 (Agnes Etherinton Art Centre)
1988Bell, Michael et al122 pagesWorks from the McCuaig Collection in the Laurentian University Museum (Now Called Art Gallery of Sudbury)
1987Krueger, Pamela56 pagesArctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Lipton, Barbara107 pages (color)Cape Dorset (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
1979
(Exhibition catalog)Houston, James et al113 pagesThe Inuit Print
1977Editor, National Museums of Man, Canada and Department of Indian and Northern Affairs267 pages (color)