KEELEEMEEOOMEE SAMUALIE
(QILIMIUMI; SAMAYUALIE; SAMAUALIE; KEELEEMEOMEE)
Born: July 31, 1919 Female E7-951
Place of Birth: Qingu near Markham Bay
Died: December 7, 1983
Resided: Cape Dorset
Drawings, Prints, Sculpture
Keeleemeeoomee was the sister of artists Anna Kingwatsiak (1911-1971),
Tye Adla (1936-1990), and Iyola and Mikigak Kingwatsiak. She was the mother
of the graphic artist Eliyakota Samualie (1939-1987), and the wife of
Samuellie Tunnillie.
"I often laugh at my drawings because after being so difficult to draw,
when they are finished, they always look so funny. I even laugh at them while
I am making them....My husband and I live with our daughter, Eliyakota
and her family. Eliyakota started drawing before I did. I like her drawings
better than mine; they are more realistic and properly drawn. Everybody was
drawing, so I started too...The only picture I have drawn about the old days
is one with people wearing sealskin clothing like we did then. Once in a
while, the memories are so fresh in my mind when I think about how it was then
when I was a little girl, about my father and mother, and what my mother
used to make me for clothing. My husband and I have not gone out camping for
many years now."
Keeleemeeoomee Samualie
Cape Dorset Print Catalogue, 1978.
EXHIBITIONS:
February - March 1968 A Collection of Original Drawings by
Cape Dorset Artists (in conjunction with
Davidee Kavik Sculpture)
Lofthouse Galleries
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, Cape Dorset Graphics
1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, (annual collection)
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 (illustrated catalogue)
May - September 1981 Spirits and Shamans/Esprits et chamans
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development
Ottawa, Ontario
January 1982 Drawings: Three Cape Dorset Women
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
October - Dec 1983 Inuit Masterworks: Selections from
the Collection of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
September 1984 Drawings by Keeleemeeoonee and Kingmeatta of
Cape Dorset, Baffin Island
Houston North Gallery
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Sep - October 1984 On the Land
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
June 1985 - Sep 1987 Chisel and Brush/Le ciseau et la brosse
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
November - Dec 1986 Cape Dorset Prints and Sculpture
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
November 1987 Cape Dorset Prints: 25 Years
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
June - September 1988 Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art
from the Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
January - April 1989 Cape Dorset Printmaking 1959-1989
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
August - October 1989 Dorset: dessins originaux/original drawings
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
December 1991 - March 1992
In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades
of Inuit Printmaking
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
February 1992 The Inuit Print and Sculpture 1960-1980
Westdale Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
November 1993 - January 1994
Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(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)
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
COLLECTIONS:
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, 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
Shell Canada Collection, Calgary, Alberta
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
SELECTED REFERENCES:
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. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
CHISEL AND BRUSH = LE CISEAU ET LA BROSSE. Ottawa: Indian
Affairs and Northern Affairs Canada, 1984.
Gustavison, Susan J.
ARCTIC EXPRESSIONS: INUIT ART AND THE CANADIAN ESKIMO ARTS
COUNCIL 1961 - 1989. Kleinburg, Ont.: McMichael Canadian Art
Collection, 1994.
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.
Reeves, John
THE WOMEN ARTISTS OF CAPE DORSET. City and Country Home,
April: 35-43, 1985.
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