Peter Sevoga (1940 – 2007) (1). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor and printmaker, Peter Paloogahyak Sevoga (Inuit Disc Number* E2-225) lived and worked in Baker Lake (aka: Qamani’tuaq), Keewatin... Read full biography
Peter Sevoga (1940 – 2007) (1). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor and printmaker, Peter Paloogahyak Sevoga (Inuit Disc Number* E2-225) lived and worked in Baker Lake (aka: Qamani’tuaq), Keewatin (now Nunavut). His works have been exhibited throughout Canada and the U.S.A. and they are in the... Read full biography
Peter Sevoga (1940 – 2007) (1). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor and printmaker, Peter Paloogahyak Sevoga (Inuit Disc Number* E2-225) lived and worked in Baker Lake (aka: Qamani’tuaq), Keewatin (now Nunavut). His works have been exhibited throughout Canada and the U.S.A. and they are in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Canadian Museum of History. (2). His mediums were stone carving and stonecut... Read full biography
Peter Sevoga (1940 – 2007) (1). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor and printmaker, Peter Paloogahyak Sevoga (Inuit Disc Number* E2-225) lived and worked in Baker Lake (aka: Qamani’tuaq), Keewatin (now Nunavut). His works have been exhibited throughout Canada and the U.S.A. and they are in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Canadian Museum of History. (2). His mediums were stone carving and stonecut prints*. The carvings were occasionally accented with items such as pieces of antler and string. His subjects were human figures, family groups, mother and child, animals, birds, Inuit genre (hunting, playing, and working), mythology and spirituality.... Read full biography
Peter Sevoga (1940 – 2007) (1). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor and printmaker, Peter Paloogahyak Sevoga (Inuit Disc Number* E2-225) lived and worked in Baker Lake (aka: Qamani’tuaq), Keewatin (now Nunavut). His works have been exhibited throughout Canada and the U.S.A. and they are in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Canadian Museum of History. (2). His mediums were stone carving and stonecut prints*. The carvings were occasionally accented with items such as pieces of antler and string. His subjects were human figures, family groups, mother and child, animals, birds, Inuit genre (hunting, playing, and working), mythology and spirituality. His style would be described as Inuit Art*. The askART auction results have many excellent illustrations of his oeuvre. He is likely... Read full biography
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About Peter Paloogahyak Sevoga: Books
Books & Publications (22)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2011
McMaster, Gerald, Editor
271 pages (color)
Spirit Wrestler-Shaman, Sedna and Sirits: The Power and Mystery of the Arctic: A collection of contemporary Inuit Sculpture
2008
Reading, Nigel and Kenji Nagai
56 pages (color)
An Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art
2007
Crandall, Richard C. and Susan M. Crandall
458 pages
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists: Volume 8, Safdie to Smith
2006
MacDonald, Colin S.
668 pages
Core inuit (Inuit Gallery of Vancouver)
2002
Zavediuk, Melanie
50 pages (color)
Keewatin 2000 (Spirit Wrestler Gallery)
2000
Reading, Nigel
62 pages (color)
Northern Rock: Contemporary Inuit Stone Sculpture (McMichael Canadian Art Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Giustavision, Susan Joan, et al
192 pages (color)
Sculpture of the Inuit
1999
Swinton, George
302 pages (color)
Inuit Art: An Introduction
1998
Hessel, Ingo; Dieter Hessel
198 pages (color)
Inspiration: Four Decades of Sculptur by Canadian Inuit (Marion Scott Gallery)
1995
Zepp, Norman
94 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
Arctic Wildlife: The Art of the Inuit (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1993
Swinton, Nelda
63 pages
Sculpture of the Inuit-
1992
Swinton, George
288 pages
Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks (Amway, Ada, Michigan and Arctic Images Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1989
Edited, United Nations et al
79 pages (color)
Selections from the John and Mary Robertson Collection of Inuit Sculpture (Agnes Etherington Art Centre)
1986
Blodgett, Jean
86 pages (color)
Pure Vision: The Keewatin Spirit (Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Zepp, Norman
140 pages (color)
Regina Collects
1984
Parke-Taylor, Michael
59 pages
Lords of the Stone: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture
1982
Mac Duff, Alistair; George M. Galpin
151 pages (color)
The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood to Be Full (Winnipeg Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Driscoll, Bernadette; George Swinton
128 pages (color)
Inuit Art in the 1970s (Agnes Etherington Art Centre) (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Routledge, Marie
104 pages (color)
The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art (Winnipeg Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Zazelenchuk, Stanley
88 pages (color)
Eskimo Carvers of Keewatin, N.W.T. (Exhibition catalog of Winnipeg International Airport, Winnipeg, 1964) (Exhibition catalog)
1964
(Winnipeg Art Gallery; Federal Dept. of Transport; Dept. of Northern Affairs; Natural Resources