Oshoochiak Pudlat (also known as Oshutsiak) was born in Amadjuak, NU in 1909. He first started drawing in September 1980 while living in Kinngait, NU, when he illustrated the memories of his brother, Simeonie, who established a Lapland reindeer farm in Armadjuak in 1922. Oshutsiak’s drawing style is unique, including large torsos, scenes of hunting, and the imaginary.
“When I first started drawing, I drew animals in imaginary situations, and stories about them. Now my drawings are of real events (past). My drawings are true…..When I first heard rumors of the white man coming in great numbers I paid little attention, as I thought it was only rumors. This turned out not to be the case…..I have no interest in this separation issue. (Referring to Nunavuut.) My only concern is for the animals, as all animals belong to everyone. If you have to separate these places, you would not be allowed to go to another place to hunt these animals…..The people (government) in the south make decisions about the north (eg. hunting quotas) without coming here to know this place (the north). They do not know of these animals as food.” (Photo and information provided by https://jerryriley.com/arctic/oshooch.htm)
Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1990
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Centre Culturel Canadien
Cape Dorset Graphics *82
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Cape Dorset Graphics *83
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Cape Dorset Graphics *86
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Cape Dorset Graphics *90
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Cape Dorset Printmaking 1959-1989
McMichael Canadian Collection
Cape Dorset Revisited
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Cape Dorset Revisited – a collection of previously unreleased prints, exhibited at selected commercial galleries, organized by
West Baffin Eskimo Co-op
Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary
Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, presented by Commerzbank
Dorset Lithos ’83 – A New Direction
Canadiana Galleries
Drawings by Ooshoochiak Pudlat of Cape Dorset
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Immaginario Inuit Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Inuit Art: Drawings and Recent Sculpture
National Gallery of Canada
Inuit Masterworks: Selections from the Collection of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kanuitpit? Kunst und Kulturen der Eskimo: Eine Auswahl aus den Museumssammlungen
Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde Munchen
Share the Vision Philadelphians Collect Inuit Art
Art Space Gallery
Small Sculptures from across the Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
Strange Scenes: Early Cape Dorset Drawings
McMichael Canadian Collection
The Last and First Eskimos
Museum of Science and History
Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection of Inuit Art
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection of Inuit Art
Canadian Guild of Craft Quebec
Public Collections
Canada Council Art Bank
Ottawa
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull
CIBC Collection
Toronto
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College
Traverse City
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Yellowknife
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg
Publications
INUK MANOMIE
Author: Inuit Galerie
Publication: Mannheim, Germany: Inuit Galerie, (1989)
VIDEO IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC
Author: Mainfilm
Publication: Montreal: Mainfilm (1988)
MOTHER
Author: Gallery Indigena
Publication: Kitchener, Ontario: Gallery Indigena (1987)
CANADA COUNCIL ART BANK CATALOGUE/CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA
Catalogue de la Banque d’oeuvres d’art
Author: Art Bank
Publication: Ottawa: Canada Council (1987)
GRASP TIGHT THE OLD WAYS
Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art
Author: Blodgett, Jean
Publication: Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario (1983)
THE INUIT ART COLLECTION AT THE MACDONALD STEWART ART CENTRE.
Author: MacDonald Stewart Art Centre
Publication: University of Guelph News Bulletin, April 21 (1983)
POTENTIAL OUTLETS FOR NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN ARTISTS AND CRAFTSMEN
Author: Indian Arts and Crafts Board
Publication: Washington: United States Department of the Interior (1982)
CANADA MIKROKOSMA
An Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Tapestries by Twenty-two Canadian Artists.
Author: Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Publication: Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre. (1982)
DIE KUNST AUS DER ARKTIS
Author: Inuit Galerie
Publication: Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany: Inuit Galerie (1981)
SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF THE CANADIAN NORTH/
Documents pour l’etude du Nord canadien.
Author: Public Archives Canada
Publication: Ottawa : Minister of Supply and Services. (1980)
ANCIENT FINE ART IS FOUND IN THE HIGH ARCTIC.
Author: McGhee, Robert
Publication: Canadian Geographic 100 (2):18-23, April-May. (1980)
ADA EYETOAQ
Recent Sculpture = sculpture recente
Author: Canadian Arctic Producers
Publication: Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers Cooperative Limited. (1979)
NASKAPI 77
An Exhibition of Traditional Crafts of the Naskapi
Author: Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Publication: Schefferville, Quebec: Naskapi Band Council (1977)
MORE STORIES.
Author: Sikkuark, Nick
Publication: Yellowknife, N.W.T. : Government of Northwest Territories. (1973)
