- Repository Number
- Location
- Artist
- Title
- Date
- Medium
- Technique
- Dimensions
- Edition
- Description
- Provenance
- Inscription
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SC0253-OJE-PR-1
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Seneca@York - DB Building - Level 3 - Room 3120
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Jesse Oonark (1906-1985)
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Whales
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1972
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Print
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Stencil
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Stonecut
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31.1 x 48.9 cm
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44/44
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A strong, bold graphic sense informs all of Oonark’s work. Traditional dress, women’s facial tattoos, and shamanistic themes are common in her art, yet they usually appear as isolated, fragmentary forms, shaped into a graphically bold image rather than a comprehensible narrative. Oonark is also well known as a textile artist, whose wool and felt wall-hangings reveal her as a master of color and form. (Janet Catherine Berlo in “North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary”, 1995)
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Purchased at auction from Consignor Canadian Fine Art on June 22, 2016.
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Signed middle, Oonark Nagyugalik (plus signature in syllabics), embossed bottom right
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