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Untitled (Successful Walrus Hunt)
Kananginak Pootoogook
Arts of the Americas
MEDIUM
Colored pencil, ink, paper
DATES
2009
DIMENSIONS
framed: 55 1/2 × 103 1/2 in., 97 lb. (141 × 262.9 cm, 44kg)
unframed: 48 x 96 in. (121.9 x 243.8 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Unsigned
COLLECTIONS
Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER
2023.55
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Edward J. Guarino from the Edward J. Guarino Collection in honor of Edgar and Josephine Guarino
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Kananginak Pootoogook was a prominent artist of the Cape Dorset community creating work in stone sculpture first then etching, drawing, and lithography. This drawing uses an aerial perspective to depict great detail of reveal daily Inuit life; catching seals, walrus and other wild-life. From his personal perspective as an Indigenous hunter Pootoogook can accurately depict such a scene representing his specific knowledge. He portrays himself on the far right of the drawing as well as other knowledge of his specific Arctic world; a combination of traditional life combined with these elements of the modern world that are useful to him. In this way he portrays some of the complexity of Inuit life experiences.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Kananginak Pootoogook (Canadian, Inuit, 1935–2010). Untitled (Successful Walrus Hunt), 2009. Colored pencil, ink, paper, framed: 55 1/2 × 103 1/2 in., 97 lb. (141 × 262.9 cm, 44kg). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Edward J. Guarino from the Edward J. Guarino Collection in honor of Edgar and Josephine Guarino, 2023.55. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2023.55.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.2023.55.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014
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