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LEVI ALASUA PIRTI SMITH (ALAASUAQ; ALAJUACK; ALASUAK; LIIVAI) Born: January 21, 1927 Male E9-1326
Died: May, 1986
Resided: Puvirnituq; also lived in Cape Smith
Sculpture
Levi's wife, Bertha Ajappatu Pirti, is also a carver. EXHIBITIONS: 1967 Eskimo Art in Northern Quebec
presented by La Federation des
Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec
at "Man and His World"
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
1971 Sculpture in Miniature
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
1971 - 1973 Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - March 1972 Eskimo Fantastic Art
Gallery 111, School of Art,
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Dec 1977 - Feb 1978 Povungnituk
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1979 Sculpture of the Inuit: Lorne Balshine
Collection/Lou Osipov Collection/
Dr. Harry Winrob Collection
Surrey Art Gallery
Surrey, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
December 1984 Takamit - Canadian Eskimo Art: Selections
from Private Collections and the Government
of Canada
Organized by La Federation des Cooperatives
du Nouveau-Quebec and the Jane Voorhees
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
September 1987 The Williamson Collection of
Inuit Sculpture
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1988 Building on Strengths: New Inuit Art
from the Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
February - March 1992 Recent Stone Sculpture from Arctic Quebec
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
April - July 1993 Multiple Realities: Inuit Images of
Shamanic Transformation
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
Nov 1993 - Mar 1994 The Inuit Imagination
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
March - July 1995 Immaginario Inuit
Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Verona, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
COLLECTIONS: Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Avataq Cultural Institute, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Musee de la civilisation, Quebec City, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Williamson Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
SELECTED REFERENCES: Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
SCULPTURE/INUIT: Sculpture of the Inuit: masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic = La sculpture chez les Inuit: chefs-d'oeuvre de
l'Arctique canadien. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
London: Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1971.
Clarke, Janet
THE WILLIAMSON COLLECTION OF INUIT SCULPTURE. Inuit Art
Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring, 1988. pp.21-22.
Courval, Michel de
LES NOUVELLES SCULPTURES DE POVUNGNITUK. North, vol. 15, no. 6,
November-December, 1968. pp.14-17.
Noel, Michel
NUNAVIMIUT: ART INUIT = INUIT ART. Pointe-Claire, Quebec:
Roussan en collaboration avec l'Institut cultural AVATAQ, 1992
(Collection LE TAMBOUR).
Nungak, Zebedee
INUIT STORIES: POVUNGNITUK = LEGENDES INUIT: POVUNGNITUK: /
[By] Zebedee Nungak and Eugene Arima. Hull: Canadian Museum of
Civilization, National Museums of Canada, 1988.
Seidelman, Harold and James Turner
THE INUIT IMAGINATION: Arctic Myth and Sculpture.
Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
University of Regina. Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery
THE WILLIAMSON COLLECTION OF INUIT SCULPTURE. Regina:
University of Regina. The Norman MackenzieArt Gallery, 1987.
Verona. Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
IMMAGINARIO INUIT: ARTE E CULTURA DEGLI ESQUIMESICANADESI.
Commune di Verona: Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di
Palazzo Forti, 1995.
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