HAROLD QARLIKSAQ (KARLEESUK; QARLISAQ; QUARELIKSAQ; QARLIKSAW;
QUARLIKSAQ; KALEESUK; KAGLIKSAK)
Born: 1928 Male E2-311
Died: 1980
Resided: Baker Lake; also lived in Back River area
Drawings, Prints, Sculpture
Harold's wife, Martha Apsaq, is a wallhanging artist in Baker Lake. Their
daughter, Deborah Puyataq, is a wallhanging artist and sculptor.
" My drawings are a symbol of what I think; I draw what I want in life."
Harold Qarliksaq
EXHIBITIONS: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, Baker Lake Print Collection
1978, 1979 (annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
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)
1976 - 1982 Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical
Symbolism in Eskimo Art
Canadian Arctic Producers and the
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
August - Sept 1977 Two Artists - Sculpture/Arlook,
Drawings/Qarlisaq
Image of the Inuit
Contempo Westwood Centre
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
March - June 1978 The Coming and Going of the Shaman:
Eskimo Shamanism and Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
August 1978 Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E.
Lee Collection of Prints
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)
August - Nov 1978 The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
November - Dec 1978 Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
(illustrated catalogue)
Dec 1978 - Jan 1979 Baker Lake Drawings
Gallimaufrey
Croton-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
March - May 1979 Eskimo Narrative
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(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)
August - Nov 1979 Baker Lake Prints and Print Drawings
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
October 1979 Baker Lake Drawings
Vancouver Public Aquarium
Vancouver, British Columbia
Nov 1979 - Oct 1984 Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical
Symbolism in Eskimo Art
Arts and Learning Services Foundation
(this is a duplicate of the C.A.P. and
National Museum of Man exhibition of
1976-1981)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
(tour)
March - April 1980 A Culture on Paper: Baker Lake Drawings
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
April - May 1980 Baker Lake - Drawings, Sculpture,
Tapestries
Theo Waddington
Toronto, Ontario
November 1980 Baker Lake Prints - Ten Year Retrospective
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
July - August 1981 Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/
Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture
National Gallery of Modern Art
Rome, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
January - February 1982 Baker Lake Drawings
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
June - October 1982 Inuit Art from the Art Centre Collection
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
February - April 1983 Baker Lake Prints & Print-Drawings:
1970-1976
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
September 1983 The Way We Were - Traditional Eskimo Life
Snow Goose Associates
Seattle, Washington, USA
April 1984 Games of the Inuit
Northern Images
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
March - May 1985 Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1986 Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare
Prints from the Arctic
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
May - June 1987 Inuit Graphics from the Past
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
Sept - Nov 1987 The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1987 Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
Dec 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
October 1989 Baker Lake Print Retrospective:
A Twenty Year Anniversary
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
February - March 1990 Inuit Drawings
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1990 Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
Oct 1992 - Jan 1993 Drawings and Sculpture from Baker Lake
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
Nov 1993 - Jan 1994 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
Aug 1994 - April 1997 Qamanittuaq: Where the River Widens
Drawings by Baker Lake Artists
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: October 1979 Harold Qarliksaq Drawings
Waddington Galleries
New York, New York, U.S.A.
March 1980 Harold Qarliksaq, Baker Lake - Drawings
Theo Waddington Inc.
Montreal, Quebec
COLLECTIONS: Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, 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
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
SELECTED REFERENCES: Baele, Nancy
INUIT ART: A new show comes to the National Gallery. Ottawa
Citizen, January 13, 1989.
Bryers, Joanne Elizabeth (Lochhead)
OBSERVATIONS ON BAKER LAKE GRAPHIC ART AND ARTISTS. Arts &
Culture of the North, vol. 3, no. 2, February, 1979. pp.151-154.
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.
Seidelman, Harold and James Turner
THE INUIT IMAGINATION: Arctic Myth and Sculpture.
Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.
Sutherland, Dave
CONTEMPORARY INUIT DRAWINGS. Muse, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring/April,
1989. pp.66-67.
Swinton, George
ESKIMO ART RECONSIDERED. Artscanada, vol. 27, no. 6,
December-January, 1971-72. pp.85-94.
Wight, Darlene
SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. The WAG Magazine,
September/October, 1987. pp. 4-5.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
BAKER LAKE DRAWINGS. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1972.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURE FROM BAKER LAKE. Winnipeg, Man.:
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1992.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
SWINTON COLLECTION OF INUIT ART. Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.
(c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995
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