DAVIDEE ITULU (ITULUK; DAVID; DAVIDIE)
Born: June 4, 1929 Male E7-1042
Place of Birth: Salluit
Resides: Kimmirut; also lived in Cape Dorset
Sculpture, Crafts, Jewellery
Davidee's wife Eva is also an artist involved with sculpture, jewellery
and crafts. Their sons Jimmy, Charlie and Kulula are artists as well. Davidee
is particularly well known for his etchings on walrus tusks. He began working
with a variety of materials in the early 1950s, but still prefers
ivory.
EXHIBITIONS:
1967
Eskimo Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery
presented at the Manitoba Legislative Building
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
February - April 1973
The Bessie Bulman Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1973
Eskimo Art Exhibition with Masterwork Artists
Beckett Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
1974
Inuit Sculpture 1974/Sculpture Inuit 1974
Lippel Gallery
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
October - November
1974
Eskimo Art
Queens Museum
Flushing, New York, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
April 1976
Baffin Island Sculpture Exhibition
Baffin Regional School
Iqaluit, Northwest Territories
1977
Sculpture from Lake Harbour
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
March - April 1979
Canadian Eskimo Art: a representative
exhibition from the collection of Professor
and Mrs. Philip Gray
Fine Arts Gallery, Montana State
University
Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A.
(catalogue)
1982
Baffin Island Graphics
Arts Induvik Canada Inc.
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated brochure)
July - September 1983
Baffin Island
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov - Dec 1986
Art Inuit
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
Nov 1987 - Jan 1988
Inuitkonst fran Kanada - skulptor och grafik
Millesgarden
Lidingo, Sweden
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1988 The
World Around Me
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Lethbridge, Alberta
January - September 1990 Arctic Mirror
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull, Quebec
Nov 1993 - Jan 1994
Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
COLLECTIONS:
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS:
1985 Awarded a grant to travel to Cape Dorset to participate in a printmaking
course.
SELECTED REFERENCES:
Jordon, Wendy Adler
BY THE LIGHT OF THE QULLIQ: Eskimo Life in the Canadian
Arctic. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service, 1979.
Lippel Gallery Inc.
INUIT SCULPTURE 1974/SCULPTURE INUIT 1974. Montreal: Lippel
Gallery Inc, 1974.
Macduff, Alistair
LORDS OF THE STONE: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture. / By
Alistair Macduff. Photographs by George M. Galpin. North
Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1982.
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.
Swinton, George
ESKIMO SCULPTURE. = SCULPTURE ESQUIMAUDE. Toronto: McClelland
and Stewart, 1965.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
BAFFIN ISLAND. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983.
(c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995
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