Nunavut, Ontario / Canada. 1927 - 2013
Colored pencil drawing, stone carving, stain glass
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1906 Back River area of Nunavut, Canada - 1985 Baker Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. Known for: Textile wall hanging, drawing, printmaking.
An Inuit artist born near Back River in Nunavut or Northern Canada, Jessie Oonark began her art career at age 54, creating a body of wall hangings and prints that earned her much acclaim and which,... Read full biography
An Inuit artist born near Back River in Nunavut or Northern Canada, Jessie Oonark began her art career at age 54, creating a body of wall hangings and prints that earned her much acclaim and which, in bright colors, are symbolic of her native heritage. She was married to an Inuit man at a young... Read full biography
An Inuit artist born near Back River in Nunavut or Northern Canada, Jessie Oonark began her art career at age 54, creating a body of wall hangings and prints that earned her much acclaim and which, in bright colors, are symbolic of her native heritage. She was married to an Inuit man at a young age, but with eight children and two left still needing support, she was widowed by 1953. In 1958, she moved to the hamlet of Baker Lake because the Caribou migration on which her farming people depended... Read full biography
An Inuit artist born near Back River in Nunavut or Northern Canada, Jessie Oonark began her art career at age 54, creating a body of wall hangings and prints that earned her much acclaim and which, in bright colors, are symbolic of her native heritage. She was married to an Inuit man at a young age, but with eight children and two left still needing support, she was widowed by 1953. In 1958, she moved to the hamlet of Baker Lake because the Caribou migration on which her farming people depended for food was shifting away, leaving many persons to starve. Two years later, her first prints were published. "Her style is marked by her bold use of large areas of flat colour and the attention she paid to shapes rather than to line styles.... Read full biography
An Inuit artist born near Back River in Nunavut or Northern Canada, Jessie Oonark began her art career at age 54, creating a body of wall hangings and prints that earned her much acclaim and which, in bright colors, are symbolic of her native heritage. She was married to an Inuit man at a young age, but with eight children and two left still needing support, she was widowed by 1953. In 1958, she moved to the hamlet of Baker Lake because the Caribou migration on which her farming people depended for food was shifting away, leaving many persons to starve. Two years later, her first prints were published. "Her style is marked by her bold use of large areas of flat colour and the attention she paid to shapes rather than to line styles. Although her medium was wall hangings and prints, her technique drew largely on traditional styles used in In... Read full biography
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British Columbia, Northwest Territories / Canada. Born 1951
Sculpture, carving, drawing, printmaking
Nunavut / Canada. Born 1949
Inuit sculpture, carving, drawing, printmaking
Quebec / Canada. 1911 - 2007
Inuit sculpture, carving, figure, animals, symbolism, mythology
Nunavut / Canada. 1937 - 2019
Inuit sculpture, carving, drawing, etching
Canada. 1908 - 1959
Inuit painting, sculpture
Canada. Born 1949
Inuit sculpture
Ontario / Canada. 1941 - 1986
Portrait and landscape painting
Northwest Territories, Ontario / Canada. 1916 - 2009
Inuit sculpture
Ontario, Quebec / Canada. 1944 - 1977
Bird and animal painting
British Columbia, Manitoba / Canada. 1919 - 2016
Woodland style drawings, illustrations, prints, women, children
Nunavut / Canada. 1909 - 1977
Inuit sculpture, carving, printmaking, drawing
Alberta / Canada. Born 1935
Symbolic Indian culture painting
Nunavut / Canada. 1920 - 1980
Inuit sculpture and stone carving, modernist and minimalist
Northwest Territories, Nunavut / Canada. 1916 - 1981
Inuit stone figural sculpture-semi abstraction
Quebec, British Columbia / Canada. 1893 - 1969
Inuit etching, painting, drawing
Nunavut / Canada. 1918 - 1983
Inuit sculpture, carving, whimsical figure, birds, mammals
Northwest Territories, Nunavut / Canada. 1897 - 1993
Inuit sculpture, carving, drawing, ceramics
Quebec / Canada. 1898 - 1954
Inuit sculpture, stone, wood and antler carving, portrait, figure, animal, genre
Nunavut / Canada. Born 1942
Inuit drawing of nurturing women, birds, mythological figure, graphic art
Nunavut / Canada. 1904 - 1983
Inuit culture drawings, graphic design, printmaking
New York, Ontario, Quebec / Canada, United Kingdom. 1846 - 1923
Town-landscape paintings, illustrations, photography, teaching
Quebec, Nunavut / Canada. 1896 - 1967
Inuit sculpture, stone and wood carving
Northwest Territories, Nunavut / Canada. 1940 - 1974
Inuit whalebone sculpture, carving
Nunavut / Canada. 1923 - 2007
Inuit carving-animals and figures, painting, printmaking, drawing
Quebec, Northwest Territories / Canada. 1915 - 1982
Inuit art fanciful image pencil drawing, birds, domestic genre
Nunavut, Manitoba / Canada. 1949 - 2023
Inuit modernist stone sculpture, carving
Northwest Territories / Canada. 1895 - 1982
Inuit genre drawing
Nunavut / Canada. 1913 - 1986
Inuit sculpture and marine ivory carving
Nunavut / Canada. 1917 - 2000
Mixed-media Inuit sculpture and carving, portraits, legends, mammals and birds
Nunavut, Manitoba, Alberta / Canada. 1934 - 2012
Inuit sculpture, stone carving, drawing, head images, mothers, children
Quebec / Canada. 1893/99 or 1906 - 1976
Stone folk art sculpture, iconic carving, printing, drawing