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Pitseolak Ashoona

Pitseolak Ashoona (1904 - 1983) was active/lived in Nunavut / Canada.  Pitseolak Ashoona is known for Inuit culture drawings, graphic design, printmaking.

Photo courtesy of The Dennos Museum Center Traverse City, Michigan.

Pitseolak Ashoona CM, RCA (1904 - 1983)

An important Inuit graphic artist and printmaker, Pitseolak Ashoona (aka: Pitseolak, aka: E71100*) was born on Nottingham Island (south-west of Baffin Island), Northwest Territories, Canada and died in Cape Dorset (Baffin Island), Nunavut. She is discussed in virtually every comprehensive Inuit Art* history book, her drawings and prints have been included in dozens of major exhibitions, and her works are in numerous museum collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and the British Museum.

The following is courtesy of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative*.

Pitseolak Ashoona was born on Nottingham Island circa 1904 in what is now known as Nunavut. She married Ashoona, a hunter, in 1922. Four of her surviving children became artists: sons Kumwartok, Qaqaq and Kiawak Ashoona and daughter Napachie Pootoogook [see all in AskART]. In t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 41388 characters.]  Artist bio

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