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      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