Lucy Qinnuayuak

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Lucy Qinnuayuak (* 1915 in Salluit ; † September 10, 1982 in Cape Dorset ) was a Canadian Inuit artist who worked as a draftsman and graphic artist .

Artistic career

Qinnuayuak began to draw in the late 1950s and was one of the first ones to the request for drawing templates by James Archibald Houston answered with the Inuit - printmaking experimented. Her work was first added to the Cape Dorset print collection in 1961 , and 136 of her prints were published in the collection by her death in 1982.

Qinnuayuak mainly worked with graphite pencils and colored pencils and experimented with watercolors and acrylic varnish in the 1970s and 1980s . In the last two decades of her life, she created hundreds of pictures of stylized birds and scenes depicting the role of women in traditional Inuit culture . Qinnuayuak's work was known for depicting arctic birds and has been exhibited in and outside Canada. One of her designs was used as a banner ad for the 1976 Summer Olympics and her stone engraving We all have something to do is part of the Senate Canada's Native Art Collection .

Qinnuayuak's work has been featured in more than 80 group and solo exhibitions , including the Inuit Print exhibition organized by the Department of Indian Affairs and the Canadian Museum of Civilization and exhibited internationally from 1977 to 1982.

Her work is collected by a variety of Canadian institutions including the Art Gallery of Ontario , the Canadian Museum of History , the Inuit Cultural Institute, the Art Gallery of Sudbury, and the Macdonald Stewart Art Center .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucy Qinnuayuak , loondance.ca, accessed June 22, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Lucy Qinnuayuak | The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Odette Leroux, Marion E. (Marion Elizabeth) Jackson, Mini Aodla Freeman, Canadian Museum of Civilization: Inuit women artists: voices from Cape Dorset . Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver 1994, ISBN 0-295-97389-7 .
  4. ↑ Canadian Women Artists History Initiative: Artist Database: Artists: QINNUAYUAK, Lucy. Retrieved June 14, 2019 .
  5. ^ Jules Heller, Nancy G. Heller: North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5 ( google.ca [accessed June 14, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Qinnuayuak, Lucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian Inuit graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Salluit
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1982
Place of death Cape Dorset