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MARY PUDLAT (SAMUELLIE; SAM; SAMUELU; MIARY) Born: May 3, 1923 Female E7-1005
Place of Birth: Arctic Quebec
Resides: Cape Dorset
Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Printmaking, Crafts
"A prolific Canadian Inuit artist, Mary Pudlat retains clear memories of
her early years living in the traditional Inuit hunting lifestyle in the area
near Povungnituk in Arctic Quebec. Orphaned as a teenager, she lived for a
while with her brother in Ivujivik before moving to Baffin Island in the
early-1940s. There she married Samuelie Pudlat in 1943 and continued to live
in the traditional semi-nomadic camps along the south shore of Baffin Island
until she and her husband and children moved permanently to Cape Dorset in
1963.
At the time of Pudlat's arrival in Cape Dorset the new West Baffin Eskimo
Co-operative fine arts program was gaining momentum, and she began to explore
her own talent for sculpting in soapstone and for drawing. Pudlat's artwork,
tentative at first, became increasingly confident. Like many other Inuit
artists she turned to her experience on the land for inspiration, carving and
drawing birds, fish, human figures, and activities from the traditional
culture. The selection of one fo Pudlat's images of a bear for inclusion in
the 1964-1965 Cape dorset print collection gave her initial encouragement, but
the demands of her young family and custodial work that she occasionally
performed for the Co-operative left her limited time for her art in the years
that followed. After her husband's death in 1979, however, and with her
children becoming more independent, Pudlat returned to drawing during the
1980s."
Marion E. Jackson
In "North American Women Artists
of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical
Dictionary" 1995.
EXHIBITIONS: 1965, 1966, 1979, 1980, 1984, Cape Dorset Graphics
1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, (annual collection)
1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, (illustrated catalogue)
1995
1967 Inoonoot Eskima: Grafik och Skulptur fran
Cape Dorset och Povungnituk
Konstframjandet
Stockholm, Sweden
(catalogue)
January - Feb1972 INUA: 50 Works from the Cappadocia Collection
of Inuit Art
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
October - Nov 1974 Eskimo Art
Queens Museum
Flushing, New York, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
Oct 1981 - Jan 1983 Cape Dorset Engravings
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development, circulated
by the Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
January 1982 Drawings: Three Cape Dorset Women
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
February - March 1983 Return of the Birds
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Dec 1984 - Feb 1985 The Last and First Eskimos
Museum of Science and History
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Feb 1985 - April 1986 Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Department of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada, Ottawa,
presented by Commerzbank
Frankfurt, Germany
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1986 Northern Exposure: Inuit Images of
Travel
Burnaby Art Gallery
Burnaby, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
October - Nov 1987 1987 Eskimo Art
Franz Bader Gallery
Washington, DC, U.S.A.
June - September 1988 Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art
from the Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
June - July 1989 A New Day Dawning: Early Cape Dorset Prints
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
October - Nov 1990 A Woman's Vision
Art Space Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
November - 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
February - March 1991 Taste Of The Wild
Orca Aart
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
May 1991 Inuit Music in Art: Singing and Dancing and
Playing
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
August - Sep 1991 Art Inuit
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Galerie Akenaton
Troyes, France
November - Dec 1991 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape
Dorset 1991
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Le Colombier
Ville D'Avray, 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)
October - Nov 1993 Sculpture and Graphics from Cape Dorset
Art Space Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Nov 1993 - Jan 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.
September - Oct 1994 Kunst van de Inuit Eskimo's
Gemeentelijk Kunstcentrum
Huis Hellemans
Edegem, Belgium
(illustrated brochure)
July 1995 Sunakutagnuvalautut:
Things from the Past
Feheley Fine Art
Toronto, Ontario
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 of York University, Downsview, Ontario
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
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
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1979 Participated in the first etching workshop in Cape Dorset.
1980 'Etching Portfolio I'. Mary was one of six artists who assembled a special
portfolio of prints which is documented in the Cape Dorset Graphic annual
catalogue of 1980.
1984 Norgraphics Commission. Mary was one of three artists to produce a collection
of limited edition etchings; documented in the Cape Dorset Graphic annual
catalogue of 1985.
1987 Norgraphics Limited. Mary was one of several artists whose work was acquire
and released by Norgraphics Limited between 1982 and 1986. The works that were
selected are documented in the Cape Dorset Graphic annual catalogue of 1987.
SELECTED REFERENCES: Art Gallery of Ontario
CAPE DORSET ENGRAVINGS. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981.
Marion Scott Gallery
WOMEN OF THE NORTH: AN EXHIBITION OF ART BY INUIT WOMEN OF THE
CANADIAN ARCTIC: June 6-July 11, 1992. Vancouver: Marion
Scott Gallery, 1992.
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.
Winrob, Harry
NORTHERN EXPOSURE: INUIT IMAGES OF TRAVEL. Toronto, Ont. :
Inuit Art Quarterly 1(2):12, 1986.
(c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995
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