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Kenojuak Ashevak

Kenojuak Ashevak (1927 - 2013) was active/lived in Nunavut, Ontario / Canada.  Kenojuak Ashevak is known for Colored pencil drawing, stone carving, stain glass.

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Kenojuak Ashevak (AKA: Kenojuak) is a graphic artist, printmaker and sculptor who was born in Ikerrasak camp on southern Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. In 1966 she moved about 100 miles to the west to the town of Cape Dorset  (AKA: Kinngait), where she still lives.
 
Her primary medium is coloured pencil, and stone carved prints.  She has also done soapstone carvings and stained glass.  Even though she is one of Canada's best known a printmakers, she does not make the prints herself, instead, they are prepared by stone cutters and printers from her drawings. She has never been involved in the actual printing.  Her subjects are birds, animals, Inuit life, landscape and fantasy.  However, according to her, the real subject is an exploration of design, colour and texture;  the things that inhabit her drawings are only vehicles for that expression. The style is sophisticated Inuit folk art. Her work is identified by vivid imagination, composition   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9959 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  31
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31 Book References for Kenojuak Ashevak
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 Boutilier, Alicia and Tobi Bruce The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists (Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Art Gallery of Hamilton) 173 Yes
2013 Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario 357 Yes
2012 Lutz, Maija M. Hunters, Carvers & Collectors: The Chauncey C. Nash Collection of Inuit Art (The Peabody Museum)
(Exhibition catalog)
148 Yes
2007 Newlands, Anne Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings 366 Yes
2002 Newlands, Anne Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000 355 Yes
2001 Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction 622 No
2000 Maracle, Lee and Sandra Laronde My Home as I Remember 146 No
1999 Walk, Ansgar Kenojuak: The Life Story of an Inuit Artist 248 Yes
1997 Bagg, Shannon Making Art Work in Cape Dorset 44 No
1994 Leroux, Odette, Marion E. Jackson and Minnie Aodla Freeman Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorseet 253 Yes
1993 McMaster, Gerald et al In the Shadow of the Sun: Perspectives on Contemporary Native Art (Canadian Museum of Civilization)
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1992 Kardosh, Judy Scott Women of the North 95 Yes
1992 Shaw, Catherine Elliot Collective Efforts: 50 Years of Intentionality 59 No
1992 Tippett, Maria By A Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women 226 Yes
1991 Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981 1557 Yes
1990 Via Rail Canada, Editor Of Style and Steel 46 No
1985 Blodgett, Jean Kenojuak 252 Yes
1984 Lipton, Barbara Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit
(Exhibition catalog)
107 Yes
1984 Van der Bellen, Liana Made in Canada IV: Artists in Books (National Library of Canada) 42 Yes
1982 R.R. Bowker Co. (Editors) Who's Who in American Art, Fifteenth Edition, 1982 1204 No
1981 Lank, David M. Canadian Nature Art (National Museums of Canada) 36 No
1980 Katz, Jane B. This Song Remembers: Self-Portraits of Native Americans in the Arts 207 No
1978 Mellen, Peter Landmarks of Canadian Art 260 Yes
1977 Editor, National Museums of Man, Canada and Department of Indian and Northern Affairs The Inuit Print 267 Yes
1976 Duval, Paul; Dorothy Harley Eber The McMichael Canadian Collection 198 Yes
1976 Godsell, Patricia Enjoying Canadian Painting 275 Yes
1975 Roch, Ernst (Editor); Patrick Furneaux and Leo Rosshandler, Texts Arts of the Eskimo: Prints 240 Yes
1974 Lord, Barry The History of Painting in Canada: Toward A Peoples' Art 253 Yes
1974 MacDonald, Colin, S. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes) 3667 No
1973 Patterson, Nancy-Lou Canadian Native Art 180 No
1963 Canadian Eskimo Art Committee Eskimo Graphic Art 38 No
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