Lukta Qiatsuk (1928 – 2004) (1). An important and influential Canadian Inuit printmaker, graphic artist, draftsman, and sculptor; Lukta Qiatsuk (disc number* E7-1060) was born in Cape Dorset* [aka:... Read full biography
Lukta Qiatsuk (1928 – 2004) (1). An important and influential Canadian Inuit printmaker, graphic artist, draftsman, and sculptor; Lukta Qiatsuk (disc number* E7-1060) was born in Cape Dorset* [aka: Kinngait], Baffin Island, Northwest Territories [now Nunavut], and lived his whole life there. For... Read full biography
Lukta Qiatsuk (1928 – 2004) (1). An important and influential Canadian Inuit printmaker, graphic artist, draftsman, and sculptor; Lukta Qiatsuk (disc number* E7-1060) was born in Cape Dorset* [aka: Kinngait], Baffin Island, Northwest Territories [now Nunavut], and lived his whole life there. For over 50 years Qiatsuk’s works have been featured in dozens of museum exhibitions in Canada, the USA, Europe, and Japan; and, in dozens of landmark books about Inuit Art. His works are in the permanent... Read full biography
Lukta Qiatsuk (1928 – 2004) (1). An important and influential Canadian Inuit printmaker, graphic artist, draftsman, and sculptor; Lukta Qiatsuk (disc number* E7-1060) was born in Cape Dorset* [aka: Kinngait], Baffin Island, Northwest Territories [now Nunavut], and lived his whole life there. For over 50 years Qiatsuk’s works have been featured in dozens of museum exhibitions in Canada, the USA, Europe, and Japan; and, in dozens of landmark books about Inuit Art. His works are in the permanent collections of over 24 major museums including the National Gallery of Canada. (2) . In addition to carving and sculpting in stone and drafting; his print mediums included stonecut*, stencil, stonecut and stencil mixed medium, sealskin stencil,... Read full biography
Lukta Qiatsuk (1928 – 2004) (1). An important and influential Canadian Inuit printmaker, graphic artist, draftsman, and sculptor; Lukta Qiatsuk (disc number* E7-1060) was born in Cape Dorset* [aka: Kinngait], Baffin Island, Northwest Territories [now Nunavut], and lived his whole life there. For over 50 years Qiatsuk’s works have been featured in dozens of museum exhibitions in Canada, the USA, Europe, and Japan; and, in dozens of landmark books about Inuit Art. His works are in the permanent collections of over 24 major museums including the National Gallery of Canada. (2) . In addition to carving and sculpting in stone and drafting; his print mediums included stonecut*, stencil, stonecut and stencil mixed medium, sealskin stencil, linocut*, stone rubbing, and engraving. He was also a master printmaker and stone block cutter whose works in that specialty are in the col... Read full biography
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About Lukta Qiatsuk: Books
Books & Publications (43)
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James Houston and the Making of Inuit Art
2022
Ayre, John
244 pages
Mapping Modernism: Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism
2018
Harney, Elizabeth and Ruth B. Phillips
432 pages
An Intimate Wilderness: Arctic Voices in a Land of Vast Horizons
2016
Hallendy, Norman
328 pages (color)
Hunters, Carvers & Collectors: The Chauncey C. Nash Collection of Inuit Art (The Peabody Museum) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Lutz, Maija M.
148 pages (color)
Canadian Symbols of Authority: Maces, chains and Rods of Office
2011
Pike, Corinna and Christopher McCreery
360 pages (color)
Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspirations: Early Printmaking in the Canadian Arctic
2011
Vorano, Norman
93 pages (color)
The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Dedicated to the memory of John Fox, Painter and Teacher)
2010
Foss, Brian; Anne Whitelaw and Sandra Paikowsky
480 pages (color)
Sanattiaqsimajut: Inuit Art from the Carleton University Art Gallery Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2009
Hessel, Ingo; Sandra Dyck
232 pages (color)
Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of Printmaking
2009
Lalonde, Christine and Leslie Boyd Ryan
70 pages (color)
Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of Printmaking
2008
Lalonde, Christine and Leslie Boyd Ryan
79 pages (color)
An Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art
2007
Crandall, Richard C. and Susan M. Crandall
458 pages
Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum (Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Hessel, Ingo
240 pages (color)
Cape Dorset Sculpture
2005
Norton, Derek and Nigel Reading
136 pages (color)
Biographical Index of Artists in Canada
2003
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
250 pages
Core inuit (Inuit Gallery of Vancouver)
2002
Zavediuk, Melanie
50 pages (color)
Inuit Art: A History
2000
Crandall, Richard C.
420 pages
Canadian Who's Who-2000
2000
Lumley, Elizabeth, Editor
1,394 pages (color)
Northern Rock: Contemporary Inuit Stone Sculpture (McMichael Canadian Art Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Giustavision, Susan Joan, et al
192 pages (color)
Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories
1999
Rushing, W. Jackson
214 pages (color)
Sculpture of the Inuit
1999
Swinton, George
302 pages (color)
Inuit Art: An Introduction
1998
Hessel, Ingo; Dieter Hessel
198 pages (color)
Canadian Who's Who 1996 Volume XXXI
1996
Lumley, Elizabeth (editor)
1,338 pages
Arctic Expressions: Inuit Art and the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, 1961-1989
1994
Gustavison, Susan
142 pages (color)
In the Shadow of the Sun: Perspectives on Contemporary Native Art (Canadian Museum of Civilization) (Exhibition catalog)
1993
McMaster, Gerald et al
538 pages
Sculpture of the Inuit
1992
Swinton, George
288 pages (color)
In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking
1991
Blodgett, Jean
144 pages (color)
The McMichael Canadian Collection
1989
Blodgett, Jean
175 pages (color)
Canadian Inuit Sculpture
1988
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
18 pages
From Drawing to Print:: Perception and Process in Cape Dorset Art (Glenbow Museum, Calgary)
1986
LaBarge, Dorothy
47 pages (color)
Northern Exposure: Inuit Images of Travel (Burnaby Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Lagasse, Robert
48 pages (color)
Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Lipton, Barbara
107 pages (color)
Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art (Art Gallery of Ontario) (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Blodgett, Jean
271 pages (color)
Lords of the Stone: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture
1982
Mac Duff, Alistair; George M. Galpin
151 pages (color)
The Inuit Sea Goddess (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Swinton, Nelda
60 pages
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec: The Permanent Collection (Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec)
1980
Watt, Virginia J., et al
207 pages (color)
Eskimo Narrative (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
1979
Blodgett, Jean
48 pages
The Inuit Print
1977
Editor, National Museums of Man, Canada and Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
267 pages (color)
A Directory of Eskimo Artists in Sculpture and Prints
1974
Gray, Philip Howard
264 pages
Sculpture of the Eskimo
1972
Swinton, George
255 pages (color)
Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic (British Museum exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Taylor, William E. Jr., George Swinton and James Houston
493 pages
Inunnit (sic): The Art of the Canadian Eskimo
1970
Larmour, W.T.
103 pages
Cape Dorset: A Decade of Eskimo Prints and Recent Sculptures (National Gallery of Canada)