Description
Gorgeous print of Owl by Elisapee Ishulutaq from Pangnirtung
Interestingly, this image predates by several years the Cape Dorset intaglio printing workshops of the mid 1990s. (Walker’s)
Price is for framed print. Unframed: $900
Elisapee Ishulutaq, OC (1925–2018) was a celebrated printmaker and graphic artist born at the seasonal camp Kagiqtuqjuaq in the Northwest Territories and later moved to Panniqtuuq (Pangnirtung), NU, where she lived and worked. After moving to Panniqtuuq, Ishulutaq began her artistic practice and quickly started selling her work. She was included in the first Pangnirtung Print Collection in 1973 as well as each subsequent year a print collection was released. While Ishulutaq mostly worked in print and drawings, she also carved and transformed many of her prints into tapestries.
Ishulutaq’s work was driven by a narrative thread that paired traditional ways of life, before settlements, alongside contemporary social and environmental issues affecting Inuit across the North.
Ishulutaq exhibited her work nationally and internationally in institutions such as the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg, MB, the Inuit Galerie in Mannheim, Germany, and Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome, Italy, among many others. Her work is included in many notable collections including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, ON, Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec. In 2014 she was awarded the Order of Canada for her contributions to the cultural and economic health of her community. Ishulutaq and her work have appeared in multiple publications including many profiles in the Inuit Art Quarterly. Notably, she was featured on the cover of IAQ’s Spring/Summer 2010 issue as well as the cover of Spring 2016.
From Inuit Art Quarterly: Edited: December 11, 2018
Biography Epilsaee ishulutaq
ELISAPEE ISHULUTAK (EELEESEEPEE; ISHULUTAQ; ELIZABETH; EESHUGLUTAK;
EESHULOOTAK; EESHULUTAK; ESHULUTAK)
Born: March, 1925
Female E6-176
Place of Birth: Kanirterjuak in Cumberland Sound
Resides: Iqaluit; also lived in Pangnirtung
Drawings, Prints, Tapestries, Sculpture
Elisapee’s husband Kanayuk is a carver. Two of their children, Nicodemus and Rosie, are also artists.
“Equally talented in drawing as in carving stone, Ishulutaq started her
career as an artist relatively late in life. She was born in 1925 at
Kanirterjuak on the east side of Cumberland Sound, on Baffin island in
Canada’s Northwest Territories. The artist experienced the traditional Inuit
lifestyle until 1970 when, at the age of 45, she moved ino Pangnirtung on Baffin Island.
Ishulutaq’s deceptively simple but brilliant drawings capture with a few
pencil lines narrative episodes out of her childhood. These pencil drawings
have been used at the Pangnirtung Weave Shop as designs for stencil prints of
extraodinary lyricism. Her designs charm us with their humor and immediacy.
Through the use of multiple perspective using frontal, profile, and bird’s eye
view in the same image, she draws the viewer into the picture plane where
usually everyday domestic happenings are depicted.
Her carvings, using equally simplified forms, have the same appeal and
charm as her drawings.”
Maria Muehlen In
“North American Women Artists
of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary” 1995. Exhibitions
50 Inuit Prints
Canadian Arctic Producers in coordination with the Hudson’s Bay Company Inuit Art Marketing Service, held at Simpson’s
A Woman’s Vision
Art Space Gallery
Arctic Forms – Inuit Sculpture
Arctic Inuit Art Gallery
Arctic Mirror
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Art Inuit
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Akenaton
Art Inuit
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Montador
Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon
Art Inuit, Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie La Poutre, Marseille
Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1991
Presented by l’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Le Colombier
Artists and Weavers III: Fine Tapestries from Canadian Arctic
Arctic Artistry
Artists and Weavers IV
Arctic Artistry
Baffin Images
Orca Aart
Baffin Island Graphics
Arts Induvik Canada Inc.
Baffin Island Graphics
Pitakvik Galleries
Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art from the Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Carvings by Elisapee Ishulutaq
Galerie aux Multiples
Chisel and Brush/Le ciseau et la brosse
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Cold Stones, Warm Hearts: Inuit Art from the Northwest Territories
University of Richmond
Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, presented at the General Assembly Building, United Nations
Crafts from Arctic Canada/Artisanat de l’arctique canadien
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Elisapee Ishulutak: a comprehensive exhibit including sculpture, prints, drawings & tapestries
Eskimo Art Gallery
Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/ Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture
National Gallery of Modern Art
First Collection of Prints from Pangnirtung
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
From the Pangnirtung Weave Shop
The Guild Shop
Games of the Inuit
Northern Images
Hunters of Old
Inukshuk Galleries Inc.
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
In Celebration of the Arts of the Canadian Eskimo of Pangnirtung, N.W.T.
Inuit Art Gallery
Inuit Art at Rideau Hall
Presented by Indian Affairs and Northern Development
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.
Inuit Art: from the collection of Maurice Yacowar
Collector’s Gallery
Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E. Lee Collection of Prints
University of Alberta
Inuit Games/Inuit Pinguangit/Jeux des inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Inuit Graphic Art from Indian & Northern Affairs Canada
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Inuit Survival
Enook Galleries, Waterloo, Ontario Presented at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Inuk, Inuit: Art et tradition chez les esquimaux d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
presented by L’Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai, at Musee des Beaux-arts d’Arras
Keeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
Looking South
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Miniaturen
Inuit Galerie
Pangnirtung – Recent Sculpture
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Pangnirtung 1984: Eskimo Print Collection and Sculpture
Images of the North
Pangnirtung Print Collection *73
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Collection *75
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Collection *76
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Collection *77
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Collection *80
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Collection *82
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Collection *83
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Collection *84
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Collection *86
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Collection *94
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Collection *95
(annual collection)
Pangnirtung Print Retrospective: 1973-1986
Organized by Pangnirtung Eskimo Co-operative Limited, Pangnirtung, at Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Pangnirtung Prints and Stonecuts
Northern Images
Pangnirtung Tapestries
The Upstairs Gallery
Pangnirtung Tapestries
The Snow Goose
Pangnirtung Tapestries/Tapisseries de Pangnirtung
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Pangnirtung Woven Tapestries
Northern Images
Pangnirtung Woven Tapestries
The Upstairs Gallery
Pangnirtung Woven Tapestries
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Pangnirtung Woven Tapestries
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
Jerusalem Artists’ House Museum
Tapestries from Eskimo Weavers
Arctic Artistry
The Inuit Print/L’estampe inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man
The Lindsay and Swartz Collections: New Acquisitions
Winnipeg Art Gallery
The Way We Were – Traditional Eskimo Life
Snow Goose Associates
Transformation
The Arctic Circle
Useful Bits of Bone
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Woven Rugs and Tapestries from Pangnirtung
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
[Inuit Art Exhibition]
Whitby Arts Incorporated, The Station Gallery
Public Collections
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Fort Worth
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection
Ada
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull
Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta
Edmonton
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College
Traverse City
Inuit Cultural Institute
Rankin Inlet
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
Montreal
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Yellowknife
University of Alberta
Edmonton
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg
