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TOMMY NUVAQIRQ (NOVAKEEL; NOVAQIRQ; NUVAQIQ) Born: November, 1911 Male E6-351
Died: 1982
Resided: Pangnirtung
Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, Tapestries
EXHIBITIONS: May - June 1969 Eskimo Sculpture '69
Robertson Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
1973, 1977, 1979, Pangnirtung Print Collection
1980, 1983, 1984, (annual collection)
1985 (illustrated catalogue)
April 1973 First Collection of Prints from Pangnirtung
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
Jan 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)
August 1978 Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E.
Lee Collection of Prints
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)
November - Dec 1978 Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1979 - May 1980 Inuit Art in the 1970s
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development, and the
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - Feb 1980 Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
April 1980 Whalebone Carvings and Inuit Prints
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Art Gallery
St. John's, Newfoundland
(illustrated catalogue)
February - March 1983 Return of the Birds
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov 1983 - Jan 1984 Inuit Art at Rideau Hall
Presented by Indian Affairs and Northern
Development
Ottawa, Ontario
Feb 1984 - Jun 1986 Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development and Canadian
Arctic Producers
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1984 Pangnirtung Woven Tapestries
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
April 1984 Games of the Inuit
Northern Images
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Nov - Dec 1984 50 Inuit Prints
Canadian Arctic Producers in
coordination with the Hudson's Bay
Company Inuit Art Marketing Service,
held at Simpson's
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
July 1986 Pangnirtung Print Retrospective: 1973-1986
Organized by Pangnirtung Eskimo Co-operative
Limited, Pangnirtung, at Inuit Gallery of
Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
July - Nov 1987 Useful Bits of Bone
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Dec 1988 - 1989 Im Schatten der Sonne:Zeitgenossische Kunst
der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the
Shadow of the Sun:Contemporary Indian and Inuit
Art in Canada
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
August - Oct 1989 Inuit Graphic Art from Indian
& Northern Affairs Canada
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
January - Sept 1990 Arctic Mirror
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull, Quebec
June 1995 - Feb 1996 Inuit Woman: Life and Legend in Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
March - April 1996 Works on Paper from the Permanent
Collection of Inuit Art
Canadian Guild of Craft Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
COLLECTIONS:
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Art Gallery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
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
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
SELECTED REFERENCES:
IM SCHATTEN DER SONNE: Zeitgenoessische Kunst der Indianer und
Eskimos in Kanada. [In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Art
of the Indians and Eskimos in Canada]. Stuttgart: Edition
Cantz. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.
Collinson, Helen
INUIT GAMES AND CONTESTS: The Clifford E. Lee Collection of
Prints. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Collections, 1978.
Lipton, Barbara
ARCTIC VISION: Art of the Canadian Inuit. Ottawa : Canadian
Arctic Producers, 1984.
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.
Pangnirtung Eskimo Co-operative
PANGNIRTUNG PRINT RETROSPECTIVE: 1973-1986. Pangnirtung:
Pangnirtung Eskimo Co-operative, 1986.
Pioneer Woman - Na'amat Organization of Canada
POLAR VISION: Canadian Eskimo Graphics from the Margaret P.
Hess Collection, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Jerusalem: Jerusalem
Artists' House Museum, 1978.
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