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NAPATCHIE POOTOOGOOK (NAWPASHEE; NAWPACHEE; NAPACHEE; NEPACHEE;
NAPACHIE)
Born: 1938 Female E7-1104
Place of Birth: Sako camp, south Baffin Island
Resides: Cape Dorset
Drawings, Prints
"Born at Sako, a traditional Inuit camp on the southwest coast of Baffin
Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, Napatchie Pootoogook is the only
surviving daughter of one of Inuit art's most important figures, Pitseolak
Ashoona. Along with her sculptor brothers, Kiawak and Kaka Ashoona, and her
graphic artist sisters-in-lawm Mayureak and Sorosiluto Ashoona, Napatchie
belongs to a family with a strong artistic identity that has contributed
significantly to the reputation of Cape Dorset art and the printmaking studio
of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. In the mid-1950s, while living at
Kiaktuuq, she married Eegyvukluk Pootoogook (b.1931), son of the important
camp leader, Pootoogook, who has since become one of the main printers in the
Cape Dorset studio. Like her mother, Napatchie began drawing in the late
1950s. Since 1960 her work has been included in almost every annual collection
of Cape Dorset prints. Napatchie and her husband moved into Cape Dorset in
1965, where they have continued to live, except for a two-year stay in Iqaluit
in the early 1970s.
Although much of her early work, such as the print 'Eskimo Sea
Dreams'(1960), presents a lyrical, dream-like reflection of Inuit beliefs in
the spirit world, the main thrust of her prints and drawings since the
mid-1970s has been more concerned with recording traditional life, clothing,
and local Inuit history. In prints such as 'Atchealda's Battle'(1978), 'The
First Policeman I Saw'(1978), 'Nascopie Reef'(1989), and 'Whaler's
Exchange'(1989), Napatchie uses a vigorous, energetic figurative style to
bring to life significant events of the past. Like her sister-in-law,
Sorosiluto, Napatchie participated in the acrylic paninting/drawing workshops
established by the West Baffin Co-operative in 1976. Her interest in landscape
and Western notions of spatial composition would seem to grow out of this
experience. Most recently Napatchie has been working directly in the
lithographic medium and experimenting with life drawing as a prepartory stage
toward the print image."
Marie Routledge
In "North American Women Artists
of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary" 1995.
EXHIBITIONS: 1951 Eskimo Art
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, Cape Dorset Graphics
1967, 1970, 1977, 1978, 1979, (annual collection)
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, (illustrated catalogue)
1989, 1990, 1993
1967 The Eskimo Art Collection of the
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto-Dominion Bank
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - February 1967 Cape Dorset - A Decade of Eskimo
Prints & Recent Sculpture
National Gallery of Canada,
in cooperation with the Canadian
Eskimo Art Committee
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
April - May 1967 Carvings and Prints by the Family of Pitseolak
Robertson Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
February - March 1968 A Collection of Original Drawings by
Cape Dorset Artists (in conjunction with
Davidee Kavik Sculpture)
Lofthouse Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
Sept - Nov 1969 The Eskimo
Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
1970 Graphic Art by Eskimos of Canada:
First Collection
Cultural Affairs Division, Department
of External Affairs, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Jan - Feb 1971 The Art of the Eskimo
Simon Fraser Gallery,
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
(catalogue)
January - March 1972 Eskimo Fantastic Art
Gallery 111, School of Art,
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Oct 1975 - Dec 1977 Inuit Games/Inuit Pinguangit/Jeux des inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
August 1978 Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E.
Lee Collection of Prints
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov - Dec 1978 Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
(illustrated catalogue)
May - August 1979 21 X 12 (Eskimo Drawing Exhibition)
Inuk 1 Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Jul 1979 - Oct 1981 Images of the Inuit: from the Simon
Fraser Collection
Simon Fraser Gallery,
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - March 1980 Cape Dorset
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
July - August 1981 Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/
Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture
National Gallery of Modern Art
Rome, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
Oct - Nov 1983 The Cape Dorset Print
Presented at Rideau Hall by Indian and
Northern Affairs Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Oct - Dec 1983 Inuit Masterworks: Selections from
the Collection of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, 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)
May - June 1986 Northern Exposure: Inuit Images of Travel
Burnaby Art Gallery
Burnaby, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1986 Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare
Prints from the Arctic
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
Nov - Dec 1986 Cape Dorset Prints and Sculpture
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
June - July 1987 Works from the McCuaig Collection in the
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre
Laurentian University Museum
and Arts Centre
Sudbury, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1987 Recent Acquisitions of Early Inuit
Sculpture
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
November 1987 Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
September 1988 Canadian Prints from the McMaster Art Gallery
Collection
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
Nov - Dec 1988 Inuit Women and their Art: Graphics
and Wallhangings
Gallery 210,
University of Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
Nov 1988 - Apr 1989 Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960-1965
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
February - April 1989 Spoken in Stone: an exhibition of Inuit Art
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Banff, Alberta
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
August 1989 Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Chapelle de la Visitation,
Thonon
France
Aug - Oct 1989 Inuit Graphic Art from Indian
& Northern Affairs Canada
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
December 1989 Art Inuit, la Sculpture des Esquimaux du Canada
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Les Chiroux, Centre Culturel de la Wallonie,
Liege
Belgium
Jun - Sept 1990 Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
Nov - Dec 1990 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1990
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Centre Culturel Canadien
Paris, France
January 1991 Sojourns to Nunavut: Contemporary Inuit Art from Canada
at Bunkamura Art Gallery, presented by the
University of British Columbia Museum of
Anthropology and The McMichael Canadian Art
Collection
Tokyo, Japan
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Le Theatre
La Ciotat, France
April - May 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Palais de l'Europe
Le Touquet, France
May - June 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at La Halle aux Bles
Saint Malo, France
July 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Chapelle de la Visitation
Thonon, France
July - August 1991 Glaciopolis: Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Maison de Pesey
Les Arcs, France
Dec 1991 - Mar 1992 In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades
of Inuit Printmaking
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
February - April 1992 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Galerie Montador
Dieppe, France
June - July 1992 Women of the North: An Exhibition
of art by Inuit Women of the
Canadian Arctic
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1994 Cape Dorset Revisited - a collection
of previously unreleased prints, exhibited
at selected commercial galleries, organized by
West Baffin Eskimo Co-op
Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories
May 1994 - July 1995 Cape Dorset Revisited
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
Sept - Oct 1994 Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo's
Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum
Huis Hellemans
Edegem, Belgium
(illustrated brochure)
Oct 1994 - Sept 1995 Isumavut:The Artistic Expression
of Nine Cape Dorset Women
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1995 Cape Dorset Engravings and Etchings from the Sixties
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
July 1995 Sunakutagnuvalautut:
Things from the Past
Feheley Fine Art
Toronto, Ontario
COLLECTIONS: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario
Fitzgerald Collection, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ontario
London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
Teleglobe Canada, Montreal, Quebec
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1979 McClelland & Stewart Commission. Napatchie produced the commission lithograph,
'Inuksuit', which was included in the limited edition book 'Landmarks of
Canadian Art'. This work is documented in the Cape Dorset Graphic annual
catalogue of 1979.
SELECTED REFERENCES:
ARTS OF THE ESKIMO: PRINTS: /Ed. by Ernst Roch. Texts by
Patrick Furneaux and Leo Rosshandler. Montreal: Signum Press in
association with Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1974.
Berlo, Janet Catherine
AN EXHIBITION, A BOOK AND AN EXAGGERATED REACTION: A review
essay by Janet Catherine Berlo. Inuit Art Quarterly: 10(1)
Spring 1995, pp. 26-36.
Berlo, Janet Catherine
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL IMPULSES AND FEMALE IDENTITY IN THE DRAWINGS OF
NAPTACHIE POOTOOGOOK. Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 8, No.4,
Winter, 1993.
Blodgett, Jean
IN CAPE DORSET WE DO IT THIS WAY: THREE DECADES OF INUIT
PRINTMAKING: Jean Blodgett/with essays by Heather Ardies,
Leslie Boyd and Linda Sutherland. Kleinburg, Ont. : McMichael
Canadian Art Collection, 1991.
Canada. Dept. of Northern Affairs and National R.
CANADIAN ESKIMO ART. Ottawa: Department of Northern Affairs and
National Resources, 1955.
Collinson, Helen
INUIT GAMES AND CONTESTS: The Clifford E. Lee Collection of
Prints. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Collections, 1978.
Gillmor, Alison
THE ASHOONA FAMILY OF CAPE DORSET. Inuit Art Quarterly, 10(2)
Summer 1995, pp. 38-39.
Gustavison, Susan J.
ARCTIC EXPRESSIONS: INUIT ART AND THE CANADIAN ESKIMO ARTS
COUNCIL 1961 - 1989. Kleinburg, Ont.: McMichael Canadian Art
Collection, 1994.
Houston, James A.
ESKIMO ARTISTS. The Geographical Magazine, vol. 34, no. 11,
March, 1962. pp.638-650.
Leroux, Odette et alia
INUIT WOMEN ARTISTS: VOICES FROM CAPE DORSET: Edited by Odette
Leroux, Marion E. Jackson and Minnie Aoudla Freeman. Hull,
Que.: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1994.
Lipton, Barbara
ARCTIC VISION: Art of the Canadian Inuit. Ottawa : Canadian
Arctic Producers, 1984.
Pauktuutit
NAALATSIARLUTIT: A presentation of artwork by northern artists
on spousal abuse. Ottawa: Pauktuutit, 1992.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
CAPE DORSET. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979.
(c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995
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