COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0003416
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aahi0003416
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Work Title (display):
Dancing Loon
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1997
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2008-12-18
Work Creator (display):
Pitaloosie Saila (Native American, born 1942)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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false
Work Creator notes (display):
Pitaloosie was born in 1942 on the southwest coast of Baffin Island near the present day community of Cape Dorset. She spent her childhood years in various hospitals in Quebec and Ontario for treatment of tuberculosis. She learned English during this time, and recalls the difficulty she experienced in relearning her native language upon her return to Baffin Island in 1957. She is now one of the few of her generation who speak both English and Inuktitut fluently. Pitaloosie began drawing in the early 1960s, and quickly established herself as a versatile and intelligent graphic artist. Over the years, she has become a familiar presence in the Kinngait Studios, and her work has been included in annual print collections since 1968. Pitaloosie is represented this year by three very different images, but all unmistakably from the same assured hand. Out of the Past (2008-28) depicts a Montreal woman from the 1950s whose elegant manner and veiled hat made an indelible impression on Pitaloosie. Equally adept at wildlife, Feathered Friends (2008-29) is a beautiful example of her confident drawing style and attention to the fine and telling detail. Since the late 1960s, Pitaloosie has made frequent trips to southern Canada to attend exhibitions and conferences. In 1967, she spent several weeks in Toronto while her husband, the well-known sculptor Pauta Saila, participated in an International Sculpture Symposium. Subsequently, she has visited Halifax, Toronto, Ottawa, Kansas City and Vermont. Her work has been featured in solo drawing exhibitions, and in 1977, Canada Post issued a stamp depicting her print Fisherman's Dream. Her lithograph entitled In the Hills represented the Northwest Territories in the centennial celebration of the National Parks of Canada, 1985. Amnesty International, the international human rights organization, selected a drawing by Pitaloosie entitled "Mother and Child" to use for their 1990 Christmas card. She was also one of nine featured artists in the acclaimed exhibition Isumavut: The Artistic Expression of Nine Cape Dorset Women, which opened at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in the fall of 1994 and continues to travel to other venues. Pitaloosie lives with her husband, Pauta, in Cape Dorset in a busy household surrounded by their children and grandchildren. In 2004, both she and Pauta were appointed members of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, in recognition of their life's work and contributions to Canadian art. (Spirit Wrestler Gallery: http://www.spiritwr…
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 2001
Work Style Period:
20th century
work_styleperiod
20th century
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
work_styleperiod
Contemporary
Work Style Period
false
Work Subject:
nature
subject
nature
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
birds
subject
birds
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
animals
subject
animals
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
prints (visual works)
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prints (visual works)
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false
Work Category (VRC classification):
prints
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prints
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
prints
Image Rights (display):
© Pitaloosie Saila
Work Rights (display):
© Pitaloosie Saila
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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