Harpoons and Seals by Pudlo Pudlat

About Pudlo Pudlat

Pudlo Pudlat

Born: February 1916, at Ilupirulik camp, near Amadjuak which is approximately 350 km east of Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island), Nunavut. Died: December 28, 1992. Pudlo Pudlat is best known for the 4500 graphic works (prints, drawings, paintings) he produced during a 33 year period. He began his career carving sculpture but was dissatisfied with this endeavor and upon his return to Kiaktuuq camp he began drawing around 1959 or 1960. Initially encouraged by James Houston and then by Terry Ryan he quickly recognized drawing and later printmaking and painting as his media of choice. Pudlo’s last prints appear in the annual Cape Dorset Print collection and catalogue in 1993.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000        Pudlo Pudlat: Print Retrospective, 1961-84, The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery, Toronto, ON.
               (formerly The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art)
1995        Pudlo: Original Drawings; Albers Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA.
1994        Pudlo Pudlat aus Cape Dorset; Inuit Galerie, Mannheim, Germany.
1993        Pudlo Pudlat: A Meeting of Cultures; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON.
1993        Pudlo: Original Drawings; Albers Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA.
1993        Pudlo: A Celebration; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
               (A modified version of the exhibition organized by the Gallery in 1990,
               that toured the North)
1993        A Retrospective of Pudlo Pudlat Prints; Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, PQ.
1991        The Path of Pudlo; Arctic Artistry, Hastings-on-Hudson, NYC, USA.
1990-91   Pudlo: Thirty Years of Drawing; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
               (travelling exhibition with illustrated catalogue)
1990        tab Pudlo Pudlat drawings 1959-90; Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
1990        Pudlo Pudlat: New Drawings; The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, ON.
1989        Pudlo Pudlat; Gallery Indigena, Waterloo, ON.
1989        Prints by Pudlo Pudlat of Cape Dorset; Gallery Indigena, Stratford, ON.
1989        Pudlo Pudlat; Inuit Galerie, Mannheim, Germany.
1987        Drawings by Pudlo of Cape Dorset; The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, ON.
1983-84   Pudlo Pudlat; Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, PEI.
1982-84   Pudlo; Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, ON.
               (travelling exhibition with illustrated brochure)
1981        Pudlo Pudlat – Arctic Landscapes; Theo Waddington, NYC, USA.
1980        Pudlo Pudlat-Ten Oversize Works on Paper; Theo Waddington, NYC, USA.
1979        Pudlo Acrylics; Fleet Galleries, Winnipeg, MN.
1978        Pudlo Pudlat-Acrylic Paintings;Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec,Montreal, PQ.
1978        Acrylic Works on Paper; Beckett Gallery, Hamilton, ON.
1978        Pudlo: Acrylic Paintings; The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto, ON.
1976-77   Pudlo Prints: An exhibition organized in conjunction with Habitat – United Nations                Conference on Human Settlements; Department of Indian Affairs
               and Northern Development, Ottawa, ON.
               (travelling exhibition)

MAJOR GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1995        Keeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of                Canada; Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1995        Cape Dorset Impressions: Inuit Stonecut and Stencil Print Techniques; National Gallery of                Canada, Ottawa, ON.
1994        Kunst aus der Arktis; Volkerkundmuseum der Universitat Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1993-94   Contemporary Inuit Drawings; Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary                Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1992-93   Oonark, Pudlo, Kananginak; Winnipeg Art Gallery,Winnipeg, MN.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated brochure)
1992        Art Inuit; Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Montador Dieppe, France.
               (l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai presented exhibitions in 10 other galleries during              
               1990-91. Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1990; at Centre Culturel
               Canadien, Paris, France as well as exhibitions in Nantes, Marseille, La Ciotat,
               Le Touquet, Saint Malo, Ensisheim, Thonon, Les Arcs,
               Troyes and VilleD’Avray).
1991-92   In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking; McMichael                Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1991        Sojourns to Nunavut: Contemporary Inuit Art from Canada; Bunkamura Art Gallery,
               presented by the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology and The
               McMichael Canadian Art Collection Tokyo, Japan.  
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1990        Inuit Art From the Glenbow Collection; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.
1989        Drawings of the 1960s from Cape Dorset; Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON in association                with Gimpel Fils, London, England.
1989        Cape Dorset Printmaking 1959-89; McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, ON.
1989-93   Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1988-89   Im Schatten der Sonne: Zeitgenossische Kunst der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In                the Shadow of the Sun:Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art in Canada Canadian Museum                of Civilization, Ottawa, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and catalogue)
1987-89   Contemporary Inuit Drawings; Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1988        Celebration 1988; Petro-Canada Exhibition Gallery, Calgary, AB.
1987        Works from the McCuaig Collection in the Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre;                Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, ON.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1986        From Drawing to Print: Perceptions and Process in Cape Dorset Art, Glenbow Museum,                Calgary, AB.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1985-86   Aboriginal Rights in Canada; National Library of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
1985-86   Die Kunst aus der Arktis; Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, ON,                presented by Commerzbank,Frankfurt, Germany.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1985        Alaska Eskimo Dolls/Inuit Prints; Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, sponsored                by the Alaska State Council on the Arts.
               (travelling exhibition)
1984-86   Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit; Department of Indian Affairs and Northern                Development and Canadian Arctic Producers, Ottawa, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1984-85   The Last and First Eskimos; Museum of Science and History, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
1983-85   Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada Department of Indian Affairs and Northern                Development, Ottawa, presented at the General Assembly Building, United Nations
               NYC, USA.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated brochure)
1983-85   Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art; Art                Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1983-84   Inuit Art at Rideau Hall; Presented by Indian Affairs and Northern Development,
               Ottawa, ON.
1983        The Arctic/L’Artique; UNESCO, Paris, France.(illustrated catalogue)
1983        Inuit Masterworks: Selections from the Collection of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada;                McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, ON.
1983        Hunter of the Sacred Game: Traditional Life on the Land; Organized by the Arts and                Learning Services Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
               (travelling exhibition)
1982-83   Noel au Chateau – Art inuit de la collection Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Macdonald                Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON, presented at Chateau Dufresne Montreal, PQ.
1981-83   The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit Print Collection; Beaverbrook Art Gallery,                Fredericton, NB.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1981-83   Cape Dorset Engravings; Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development,                circulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario,Toronto, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated brochure)
1981-82   Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Man,                Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada; National                Museum of Man, Ottawa and Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., Toronto, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1981        Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture; National                Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy. (illustrated catalogue)
1980        La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea Goddess; Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal,                Montreal, PQ.(travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1979-84   Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical Symbolism in Eskimo Art; Arts and Learning                Services Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, travelling exhibition.
               (a duplicate of the exhibition “Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical Symbolism in                Eskimo Art; Canadian Arctic Producers and the National Museum of Man, 1976-81,                Ottawa, ON, travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1979-81   Images of the Inuit: from the Simon Fraser Collection; Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon                FraserUniversity, Burnaby, British Columbia.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1979-80   Inuit Art in the 1970s; Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the                Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1979        Eskimo Narrative; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1978        Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics; Jerusalem Artists’ House Museum
               Jerusalem, Israel. (illustrated catalogue)
1975-79   We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions des Animaux; Department of Indian Affairs and                Northern Development in cooperation with the Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1977-82   The Inuit Print/L’estampe inuit; Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development                and the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1973-74   Les Eskimos/De Eskimo’s; Studio 44 – Passage 44, Brussels, Belgium.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1972-87   Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1971-73   Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic; Canadian Eskimo Arts Council,                Ottawa, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1970        Graphic Art by Eskimos of Canada: First and Second Collections; Cultural Affairs Division,                Department of External Affairs Canada, Ottawa, ON.
               (travelling exhibition and illustrated catalogue)
1970        Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1969        Eskimo Drawings Cape Dorset; The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, ON.
1969        Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection.
               (illustrated catalogue)
1967        Cape Dorset-A Decade of Eskimo Prints & Recent Sculpture; National Gallery in                cooperation with the Canadian Eskimo Art Committee, Ottawa, ON.
               (travelling exhibition with illustrated catalogue)
1967        Inoonot Eskima: Grafik och Skulptur fran Cape Dorset och Povungnituk; Konstframjandet,                Stockholm, Sweden.(catalogue)
1967        Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection. (illustrated catalogue)
1966        Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection. (illustrated catalogue)
1965        Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection. (illustrated catalogue)
1963        Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection. (illustrated catalogue)
1961        Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection. (illustrated catalogue)

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON.
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, PQ.
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MN.
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON.
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON.
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON.
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, PQ.
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, NWT.
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, PQ.
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, USA.
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, ON.
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, ON
Museum London, London, ON.
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI, USA.
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) Collection, Toronto, ON.
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON.
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SN.
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB.
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS.
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON.
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
Macmillan-Bloedel Limited, Vancouver, BC.
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI.
Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB.
Teleglobe Canada, Montreal, PQ.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON.
Province of British Columbia, Victoria, BC.
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, MI, USA.
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC.

COMMISSIONS, HONOURS and EVENTS

1990        Attended the opening of “Pudlo: Thirty Years of Drawing”, the first solo show for an Inuit                artist at the National Gallery of Canada.
1989        Travelled to Mannheim, Germany to attend the opening of his solo exhibition
               at the Inuit Galerie.
1988        Attended the gala opening of the new National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
1986        Norgraphics Limited. Pudlo was one of several artists whose work was acquired and                released by Norgraphics Limited between 1976 and 1984. The works that were selected                are documented in the annual Cape Dorset print catalogue in 1986.
1986        Marion Scott Limited. Pudlo’s “Flight to Sea” lithograph was printed in 1985 and featured                during the Vancouver Exposition in 1986. This work is documented
               in the Cape Dorset Graphic annual catalogue in 1986.
1984        Pudlo Pudlat Lithograph Folio. The artist produced a special folio of four lithograph prints,                documented in the annual Cape Dorset print catalogue in 1984.
1984        Pudlo’s work was featured in the 1984 Cape Dorset calendar.
1980        Canadian Guild of Crafts Commission. A single lithograph commission “In Celebration”                was undertaken by Pudlo, to commemorate the anniversary of the
               Canadian Guild of Crafts in Montreal, Quebec. This work is also included in the
               annual Cape Dorset print catalogue in 1980.
1980        Etching Portfolio I. Pudlo was one of six artists who contributed to a special portfolio of                prints. The portfolio appears in the annual Cape Dorset Print catalogue in 1980.
1979        Commissioned by the Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal to create a lithograph
               to commemorate the first exhibition of contemporary Inuit art held at the Guild
               in Montreal.
1979        Queen Elizabeth Hotel Commission. Honouring 29 “Great Montrealers” Pudlo produced a                lithograph entitled “Shores of the Settlement”. The print was included in the annual
               Cape Dorset print collection and catalogue in 1979. The artist travelled to Montreal
               to attend the presentation.
1978         Commissioned by the Department of Indian Affairs & Northern Development to create
               two designs to be silkscreened onto banners for the tab DIAND headquarters lobby in                Ottawa; Pudlo travelled to Mississauga to work on the designs at Sheridan College.
1978        Pudlo’s 1976 print “Aeroplane” was reproduced on a Canadian postage stamp.
1976        United Nations Conference “Habitat Folio” commission. Pudlo was one of four Kinngait                (Cape Dorset) artists commissioned to produce a collection of prints
               for the Habitat Conference (United Nations); the prints appear in the annual
               Cape Dorset print collection and catalogue in 1981.
1976        Attended the Toronto opening of the annual Kinngait (Cape Dorset)
               print collection at the Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art.
1972        Pudlo Pudlat’s design, along with designs by four other Canadian Inuit artists, was chosen                for a series of UNICEF greeting cards.