MARJORIE ESA (ISA; IISA; ESSA) Born: 1934 Female E3-257
Place of Birth: Nuqsarnaarjuk (near Igloolik)
Resides: Baker Lake
Drawings, Prints, Printmaking, Wallhangings, Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS: November - December 1964 Eskimo Carvers of Keewatin, N.W.T.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
1967 Eskimo Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery
presented at the Manitoba Legislative
Building
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
1971, 1972, 1973, 1980, 1981, Baker Lake Print Collection
1984, 1985, 1990 (annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1971 Canadian Eskimo Sculpture & Original
Prints
Madurodam, Holland
May - September 1972 Baker Lake Drawings
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1973 - 1974 Baker Lake Prints and Drawings:
1970-1973
Winnipeg Art Gallery,
Extension Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(catalogue)
January - February 1973 Baker Lake Eskimo Drawings - Six Artists
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
February 1974 Baker Lake Drawings
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
1976 Baker Lake Drawings
Artemus Gallery
Montreal, Quebec
January 1977 - June 1982 The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development and the
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1978 Baker Lake Prints and Drawings
Assiniboia Gallery
Saskatchewan
December 1978 - January 1979 Baker Lake Drawings
Gallimaufrey
Croton-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
July 1979 - 1981 Keewatin Wallhangings 1979-1981
Canadian Arctic Producers Ltd.
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
August - November 1979 Baker Lake Prints and Print Drawings
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
November - December 1979 Baker Lake Wallhangings 1979
Elca London Studio
Montreal, Quebec
November 1980 Baker Lake Prints - Ten Year Retrospective
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
October 1981 - February 1983
The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit
Print Collection
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Fredericton, New Brunswick
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
February - March 1983 Return of the Birds
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
February - April 1983 Baker Lake Prints & Print-Drawings:
1970-1976
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
1984, 1986 Baker Lake Print Collection (printmaker)
(annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - May 1985 Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1985 Alaska Eskimo Dolls/Inuit Prints
Provincial Museum of Alberta,
sponsored by the Alaska State
Council on the Arts
Edmonton, Alberta
(tour)
September - November 1987 The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
December 1987 - March 1989 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1988 The World Around Me
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Lethbridge, Alberta
June - September 1988 Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art
from the Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
February - March 1990 Inuit Drawings
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
October - November 1990 A Woman's Vision
Art Space Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
February - March 1991 Inuit Drawings
Albers Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
October 1992 - January 1993 Drawings and Sculpture from Baker Lake
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
November 1993 - January 1994 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
August 1994 - April 1997 Qamanittuaq: Where the River Widens
Drawings by Baker Lake Artists
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
February 1996 The Spirit World - 1977 to 1990: Baker Lake
Clyde River and Pangnirtung Prints.
A retrospective collection exhibited at
selected commercial galleries, organized by
Canadian Arctic Producers
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1974 Iisa Drawings
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
COLLECTIONS: Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1986 Expo '86, Vancouver. The artist produced a print entitled 'Uluagutit Mumigtut/
Geese Dancing' to commemorate the 1986 Exposition.
SELECTED REFERENCES: Beaverbrook Art Gallery
THE MURRAY AND MARGUERITE VAUGHAN INUIT PRINT COLLECTION =
COLLECTION D'ESTAMPES INUIT: An Exhibition Organized and
Circulated by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Canada.
Fredericton: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 1981.
Canadian Arctic Producers
KEEWATIN WALLHANGINGS. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers, 1979.
Driscoll, Bernadette
UUMAJUT: Animal Imagery in Inuit art. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art
Gallery, 1985.
Graham, John W.
ESKIMO ART VARIED. Winnipeg Free Press, February 2, 1973.
Jackson, Marion E.
CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS. Guelph, Ontario: Macdonald Stewart
Art Centre, 1987.
Muscarelle Museum of Art (Williamsburg)
CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS: The gift collection of Frederick
and Lucy S. Herman. Williamsburg, Va.: The College of William
and Mary in Virginia, 1993.
National Museum of Man
THE INUIT PRINT = L'ESTAMPE INUIT: A Travelling Exhibition... =
Une exposition itinerante... Ottawa: National Museum of Man,
National Museums of Canada, 1977.
Swinton, George
ESKIMO ART RECONSIDERED. Artscanada, vol. 27, no. 6,
December-January, 1971-72. pp.85-94.
Whitton, Elizabeth
THE BAKER LAKE ESKIMO AND THEIR NEEDLECRAFT. [Manuscript,
c.1972].
Winnipeg Art Gallery
BAKER LAKE DRAWINGS. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1972.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
BAKER LAKE PRINTS & PRINT-DRAWINGS 1970-76. Winnipeg: The
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURE FROM BAKER LAKE. Winnipeg, Man.:
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1992.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
ESKIMO CARVERS OF KEEWATIN N.W.T. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art
Gallery with the Department of Northern Affairs and National
Resources, 1964.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.
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