Sea Monsters Devouring Whale

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Current Exhibition:

The Raven and the Loon: Inuit Prints and Sculptures from the Chauncey C. Nash Collection

May 5, 1999 - Spring, 2001
Tozzer Library, 21 Divinty Avenue

 

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INUIT PRINTS

The Peabody Museum's paintings collection includes sixty-six Inuit prints, along with numerous carvings, that were given to the Museum in the 1960s by Harvard alumnus Chauncy Nash. The prints are from the earliest years of Inuit print cooperatives, mostly from Cape Dorset. Techniques include engraving, stone cut, and sealskin stencil.

The artists include:

Kenojuak (4 prints)

Kiakshuk (15) [image above]

Napachee (4)

Kovinaktilliak (4)

Pudlat [image below]

Pisteolak [image below]

Helen Kalvak

Below (and above) are several examples of this collection. Click on the images to see them bigger, and to see more information about the objects and the artists.

Caribou Chased by Wolf

Perils of the Sea Traveler
Pitseolak Ashoona
Stonecut
1960

Caribou Chased by Wolf
Pudlat (aka Pudlo)
Sealskin stencil on paper
1961

Sea Monsters Devouring Whale
Kiakshuk, Stonecut, 1961

 

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