Innukjuakju Pudlat and Iyola Kingwatsiak (printmaker), Eskimo Mother And Children, 1960 (BG381). Photo: Rachel Topham Photography

Artwork

Eskimo Mother And Children

Artists/Creators: ᐃᓄᒡᔪᐊᕐᔪᒃ ᐳᓪᓚᑦ Innukjuakju Pudlat (Artist)
Iyola Kingwatsiak (Printmaker)
Date: 1960
ID #: BG381

Physical Description

Medium: ink
Support: paper
Dimensions: 43.3 cm 32 cm (Object)
Object Description: Innukjuakju Pudlat's print Eskimo Mother and Children depicts a mother with her two children. Like her contemporaries in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset), Pudlat’s work focuses on the duality of Inuit life experienced during the vastly shifting period of the 1960s in Northern Canada.

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Dennis Michael Churchill of Baltimore, 1986
Related Exhibitions: Breathless Days, 1959-60; A Chronotropic Experiment
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