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1904 Baffin Island, Canada - 1983 Baffin Island, Canada. Known for: Inuit culture drawings, graphic design, printmaking.
Pitseolak Ashoona CM, RCA (1904 - 1983). An important Inuit graphic artist and printmaker, Pitseolak Ashoona (aka: Pitseolak, aka: E71100*) was born on Nottingham Island (south-west of Baffin... Read full biography
Pitseolak Ashoona CM, RCA (1904 - 1983). An important Inuit graphic artist and printmaker, Pitseolak Ashoona (aka: Pitseolak, aka: E71100*) was born on Nottingham Island (south-west of Baffin Island), Northwest Territories, Canada and died in Cape Dorset (Baffin Island), Nunavut. She is discussed... Read full biography
Pitseolak Ashoona CM, RCA (1904 - 1983). An important Inuit graphic artist and printmaker, Pitseolak Ashoona (aka: Pitseolak, aka: E71100*) was born on Nottingham Island (south-west of Baffin Island), Northwest Territories, Canada and died in Cape Dorset (Baffin Island), Nunavut. She is discussed in virtually every comprehensive Inuit Art* history book, her drawings and prints have been included in dozens of major exhibitions, and her works are in numerous museum collections including the... Read full biography
Pitseolak Ashoona CM, RCA (1904 - 1983). An important Inuit graphic artist and printmaker, Pitseolak Ashoona (aka: Pitseolak, aka: E71100*) was born on Nottingham Island (south-west of Baffin Island), Northwest Territories, Canada and died in Cape Dorset (Baffin Island), Nunavut. She is discussed in virtually every comprehensive Inuit Art* history book, her drawings and prints have been included in dozens of major exhibitions, and her works are in numerous museum collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and the British Museum. The following is courtesy of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative*. Pitseolak Ashoona was born on Nottingham Island circa 1904 in what is... Read full biography
Pitseolak Ashoona CM, RCA (1904 - 1983). An important Inuit graphic artist and printmaker, Pitseolak Ashoona (aka: Pitseolak, aka: E71100*) was born on Nottingham Island (south-west of Baffin Island), Northwest Territories, Canada and died in Cape Dorset (Baffin Island), Nunavut. She is discussed in virtually every comprehensive Inuit Art* history book, her drawings and prints have been included in dozens of major exhibitions, and her works are in numerous museum collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and the British Museum. The following is courtesy of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative*. Pitseolak Ashoona was born on Nottingham Island circa 1904 in what is now known as Nunavut. She married Ashoona, a hunter, in 1922. Four of her surviving children became artists: s... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
- •Colored Pencil
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Magic Marker, Sharpie, Felt-Tip Pen
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Stoneware, Stone, Stonecut, Sandstone
Art Style
- •Inuit Art
Art Subject
- •Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
- •Fantasy, Fancy, Fables, Dreams, Visions, Mystery, Creatures
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Art Association
- •Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Elected Member
Awards/Recognition
- •Canada Council Grant for the Arts
- •Order of Canada, Elected Member
Added Description
- •Artist Has Artist Family Members
- •Drawing Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Inuit, Eskimo
Artist Colony
- •Cape Dorset, Nunuvat, Canada (Inuit Art)
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts)
- •Inuit Modern: Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario
- •Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- •National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- •Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada