Thomas Sivuraq (b.1941). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor, carver, printmaker and draftsman, Thomas Sivuraq (disc number* E2-236) was born on the south side of Baker Lake, Nunavut and currently... Read full biography
Thomas Sivuraq (b.1941). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor, carver, printmaker and draftsman, Thomas Sivuraq (disc number* E2-236) was born on the south side of Baker Lake, Nunavut and currently lives in the settlement of Baker Lake. Dozens of his works are in important Canadian museum... Read full biography
Thomas Sivuraq (b.1941). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor, carver, printmaker and draftsman, Thomas Sivuraq (disc number* E2-236) was born on the south side of Baker Lake, Nunavut and currently lives in the settlement of Baker Lake. Dozens of his works are in important Canadian museum collections including the Canadian Museum of History, the Winnipeg Art Gallery*, and the National Gallery of Canada. (1). His mediums are stone, ivory, and bone carving; graphite and felt pen; and stonecut... Read full biography
Thomas Sivuraq (b.1941). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor, carver, printmaker and draftsman, Thomas Sivuraq (disc number* E2-236) was born on the south side of Baker Lake, Nunavut and currently lives in the settlement of Baker Lake. Dozens of his works are in important Canadian museum collections including the Canadian Museum of History, the Winnipeg Art Gallery*, and the National Gallery of Canada. (1). His mediums are stone, ivory, and bone carving; graphite and felt pen; and stonecut prints*. His subjects are human figures, family groups, mother and child, animals, birds, Inuit genre* (hunting, playing, and working),fantasy, mythology and spirituality. His style would be described as Inuit Art*. He usually signs his works in... Read full biography
Thomas Sivuraq (b.1941). A prominent Canadian Inuit* sculptor, carver, printmaker and draftsman, Thomas Sivuraq (disc number* E2-236) was born on the south side of Baker Lake, Nunavut and currently lives in the settlement of Baker Lake. Dozens of his works are in important Canadian museum collections including the Canadian Museum of History, the Winnipeg Art Gallery*, and the National Gallery of Canada. (1). His mediums are stone, ivory, and bone carving; graphite and felt pen; and stonecut prints*. His subjects are human figures, family groups, mother and child, animals, birds, Inuit genre* (hunting, playing, and working),fantasy, mythology and spirituality. His style would be described as Inuit Art*. He usually signs his works in syllabics* (The askART auction results have many excellent illustrations of his oeuvre. He is a self-taught artist who started to carve in... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (19)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Rough Guide to Toronto
2009
Lee, Phil and Helen Lovekin
256 pages (color)
The Harry Winrob Collection of Inuit Sculpture (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
2008
Wight, Darlene and Zebedee Nungak
136 pages (color)
Inuit Women: Their Powerful Spirit in a Century of Change
2007
Billson, Janet Mancini; Kyra Mancini
461 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)
The Faye and Bert Settler Collection (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
2004
Blodgett, Jean, Darlene Wight and Robert Enright
160 pages
The Jerry Twomey Collection at the Winnipeg Art Gallery: Inuit Sculpture from the Canadian Arctic (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Wight, Darlene Coward
128 pages (color)
An Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art
2001
Crandall, Richard C.
464 pages (color)
Shades of Stone: Facets of Identity Among Inuti Carvers: Thesis
1998
Evans, Michael Robert
368 pages
Inuit Art: An Introduction
1998
Hessel, Ingo; Dieter Hessel
198 pages (color)
Epic of Qayaq: The Longest Story Ever Told by My People
1995
Oman, Lela
119 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 Amautik: I Like My Hood to Be Full (Winnipeg Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Driscoll, Bernadette; George Swinton
128 pages (color)
The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art (Winnipeg Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Blodgett, Jean
264 pages (color)
Inuit Art in the 1970s (Agnes Etherington Art Centre) (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Routledge, Marie
104 pages (color)
Looking South (Winnipeg Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Blodgett, Jean
24 pages
Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E. Lee Collection of Inuit Prints (University of Albera, Edmonton)
1978
Collinson, Helen and George Swinton
0 pages (color)
The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art (Winnipeg Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)