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- Location
- Artist
- Title
- Date
- Medium
- Technique
- Dimensions
- Edition
- Description
- Inscription
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SC0281-PPU-PR-1
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Newnham - Building B - Level 2 - Across from Library
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Pudlo Pudlat (1916-1992)
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Aeroplane
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1976
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Print
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Stencil
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Stonecut
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62.2 x 86.4 cm
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31/50
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Aeroplane is one of the most important graphic works to come of Cape Dorset. Shortly Canada Post announced that it was to be issued as a 14-cent stamp (1978), we received a number of inquiries from collectors of Inuit art anxious to purchase the print from Seneca Polytechnic.
The year 1957 marked Pudlo Pudlat’s first direct encounter with an airplane. Following a hunting accident, he was flown to and from a southern hospital. Subsequently, Aeroplane was among the first Inuit prints to incorporate western imagery, linking modern technology with Inuit culture and traditional values with Western encroachment.
It may also illustrate how Christian teaching, in this case the ascension of Christ, has been filtered through traditional Inuit understanding and sensibility.
Pudlo was the first Inuit to be honoured with a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada (1993). (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
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Signed on the bottom right, Pudlo
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