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 #3229
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Musk-ox
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colored pencil and ink drawing/paper
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66x51 cm (26x20"), unframed
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signed in syllabic lower left, Dorset Fine
Art stamp lower right
verso: inventory #, date, size, artist's name
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$550.00 CDN
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 #2716 |
| Owl Spirits |
| colored pencil and ink
drawing/paper |
signed in syllabic lower left,
Dorset Fine Art stamp lower right
verso: inventory #, date, size, artist's name |
| 33 x 25.5 cm (13 x 10"),
unframed |
| $225.00 CDN
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 #3294 |
| Children's Games, 2000/1 |
| colored pencil and ink
drawing/paper |
signed in syllabic lower left,
Dorset Fine Art stamp lower right
verso: inventory #, date, size, artist's name |
| 50.9 x 66cm (20x26"), unframed |
| $550.00 CDN
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 #3319 |
| Birds and Fish Embrace, 2000/1 |
| colored pencil and ink
drawing/paper |
| 50.9x66cm (20x26"), unframed |
signed in syllabic lower left,
Dorset Fine Art stamp lower right
verso: inventory #, date, size, artist's name |
| $550.00 CDN
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Biography
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| A prolific Canadian Inuit artist, Mary Pudlat
retains clear memories of her early years living in the traditional Inuit
hunting lifestyle in the area near Povungnituk in Arctic Quebec. Orphaned
as a teenager, she lived for a while with her brother in Ivujivik before
moving to Baffin Island in the early-1940s. There she married Samuelie
Pudlat in 1943 and continued to live in the traditional semi-nomadic camps
along the south shore of Baffin Island until she and her husband and
children moved permanently to Cape Dorset in 1963.
At the time of Pudlat's arrival in Cape Dorset the new West Baffin
Eskimo Co-operative fine arts program was gaining momentum, and she began
to explore her own talent for sculpting in soapstone and for drawing.
Pudlat's artwork, tentative at first, became increasingly confident. Like
many other Inuit artists she turned to her experience on the land for
inspiration, carving and drawing birds, fish, human figures, and
activities from the traditional culture. The selection of one of Mary’s
images of a bear for inclusion in the 1964-1965 Cape Dorset Print
Collection gave her initial encouragement, but the demands of her young
family and custodial work that she occasionally performed for the
Co-operative left her limited time for her art in the years that followed.
After her husband's death in 1979, however, and with her children becoming
more independent, Pudlat returned to drawing during the 1980s.
Mary Pudlat passed away in 2001.
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