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 |