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       JAMASIE TEEVEE   (JAMESSIE)
       Born:  July 2, 1910       Male       E7-977
       Place of Birth:  Lake Harbour
       Died:  1985
       Resided:  Cape Dorset
       Drawings, Prints, Sculpture
       "[Jamasie] began to draw in the early 1960s while living in an Inuit Camp on  
       the coastline of southern Baffin Island.  During that time, he concentrated   
       primarily on the copper engraving technique, ferrying copper plates back and  
       forth between his campsite and the co-operative in Cape Dorset.  Many of his  
       engravings, published in the 1960s and early 1970s, depicted the traditional  
       Inuit camp and hunting activities.                                            
                                                                                     
       [In the early 1980s], Jamasie ... returned to drawing on paper, using graphite
       and coloured pencils, in addition to felt-tip pens.  His drawings [were]      
       executed in precise, simple and uncluttered lines."*                          
                                                                                     
       Jamasie was the father of Anirnik Ragee, Parnee Peter, Nicotai Simigak, and   
       Simeonie Teevee, all Cape Dorset sculptors.  Jamasie's wife, Cape Dorset      
       artist Angotigolu Teevee, died in 1967.                                       
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                           *from "Dorset Fine Arts Artist            
                                            Information Sheet", (date unknown)       
                                                                                     


       EXHIBITIONS:
       1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969,           Cape Dorset Graphics
       1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974,           (annual collection)                               
       1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979,           (illustrated catalogue)
       1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985  
       1967                                   Eskimo Sculpture
                                                   Winnipeg Art Gallery                              
                                                   presented at the Manitoba Legislative             
                                                   Building                                          
                                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       1967                                   The Eskimo Art Collection of the
                                                   Toronto-Dominion Bank                             
                                                   Toronto-Dominion Bank                             
                                                   Toronto, Ontario
                                                   (tour)
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

       1967                                    Inoonoot Eskima: Grafik och Skulptur fran
                                                   Cape Dorset och Povungnituk                       
                                                   Konstframjandet                                   
                                                   Stockholm, Sweden
                                                   (catalogue)
       February - April 1973       The Bessie Bulman Collection
                                                   Winnipeg Art Gallery                              
                                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       Jan 1977 - Jun 1982        The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit
                                                   Department of Indian Affairs and                  
                                                   Northern Development and the                      
                                                   National Museum of Man                            
                                                   Ottawa, Ontario
                                                   (tour)
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       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)
       Nov - Dec 1978                 Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
                                                   Jerusalem Artists' House Museum                   
                                                   Jerusalem, Israel
                                                   (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)

       March - April 1979            Canadian Eskimo Art: a representative
                                                   exhibition from the collection of Professor       
                                                   and Mrs. Philip Gray                              
                                                   Fine Arts Gallery, Montana State                  
                                                   University                                        
                                                   Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A.
                                                   (catalogue)
       March - May 1979             Eskimo Narrative
                                                   Winnipeg Art Gallery                              
                                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba
                                                   (tour)
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       May 1979                           Inuit Prints
                                                   University of New Brunswick                       
                                                   Long Gallery, St. John Campus                     
                                                   St John, New Brunswick
                                                   (tour)
       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)
       January - February 1980  Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s
                                                   Inuit Gallery of Vancouver                        
                                                   Vancouver, British Columbia
       January - March 1980       Cape Dorset
                                                   Winnipeg Art Gallery                              
                                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       April - May 1980                The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit
                                                   Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario               
                                                   University of Guelph                              
                                                   Guelph, Ontario
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

       Sept - Oct 1980                 La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea
                                                   Goddess                                           
                                                   Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal                  
                                                   Montreal, Quebec
                                                   (tour)
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       Apr 1981 - Mar1982         Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from
                                                   the Collection of the National Museum of          
                                                   Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent           
                                                   Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada             
                                                   National Museum of Man, Ottawa and                
                                                   Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd.                 
                                                   Toronto, Ontario
                                                   (tour)
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       July - August 1981             Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/
                                                   Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture            
                                                   National Gallery of Modern Art                    
                                                   Rome, Italy
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       Oct 1981 - Jan 1983        Cape Dorset Engravings
                                                   Department of Indian Affairs and                  
                                                   Northern Development, circulated                  
                                                   by the Art Gallery of Ontario                     
                                                   Toronto, Ontario
                                                   (tour)
                                                   (illustrated brochure)
       Oct 1981 - Feb 1983        The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit
                                                   Print Collection                                  
                                                   Beaverbrook Art Gallery                           
                                                   Fredericton, New Brunswick
                                                   (tour)
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       June - October 1982         Inuit Art from the Art Centre Collection
                                                   Macdonald Stewart Art Centre                      
                                                   Guelph, Ontario

       Dec 1982 - Jan 1983       Noel au Chateau - Art inuit de la
                                                   collection Macdonald Stewart Art Centre           
                                                   Macdonald Stewart Art Centre                      
                                                   Guelph, Ontario                                   
                                                   presented at Chateau Dufresne                     
                                                   Montreal, Quebec
       1983                                   Hunter of the Sacred Game: Traditional
                                                   Life on the Land                                  
                                                   Organized by the Arts and Learning                
                                                   Services Foundation                               
                                                   Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
                                                   (tour)
       February - March 1983     Return of the Birds
                                                   Inuit Gallery of Vancouver                        
                                                   Vancouver, British Columbia
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       May 1983 - April 1985     Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from
                                                   the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art         
                                                   Art Gallery of Ontario                            
                                                   Toronto, Ontario
                                                   (tour)
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       Sept - Oct 1983                 Inuit Survival
                                                   Enook Galleries, Waterloo, Ontario                
                                                   Presented at the University of Waterloo           
                                                   Art Gallery                                       
                                                   Waterloo, Ontario
       Oct - Nov 1983                  The Cape Dorset Print
                                                   Presented at Rideau Hall by Indian and            
                                                   Northern Affairs Canada                           
                                                   Ottawa, Ontario
       Oct - Dec 1983                  Inuit Masterworks: Selections from
                                                   the Collection of Indian and Northern             
                                                   Affairs Canada                                    
                                                   McMichael Canadian Collection                     
                                                   Kleinburg, Ontario

       Nov 1983 - Jan 1984        Inuit Art at Rideau Hall
                                                   Presented by Indian Affairs and Northern          
                                                   Development                                       
                                                   Ottawa, Ontario
       Sept - Oct 1984                On the Land
                                                   The Arctic Circle                                 
                                                   Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
       March - May 1985             Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art
                                                   Winnipeg Art Gallery                              
                                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       May 1986                           Premiere Exhibit of 1986
                                                   Page's Exclusive Eskimo Art                       
                                                   Agoura Hills, California, U.S.A.
       May - June 1986               Northern Exposure: Inuit Images of
                                                   Travel                                            
                                                   Burnaby Art Gallery                               
                                                   Burnaby, British Columbia
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       November 1986                Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare
                                                   Prints from the Arctic                            
                                                   Arctic Artistry                                   
                                                   Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
       Nov - Dec 1986                 Cape Dorset Prints and Sculpture
                                                   McMaster Art Gallery                              
                                                   Hamilton, Ontario
       May - June 1987                Inuit Graphics from the Past
                                                   Arctic Artistry                                   
                                                   Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
       November 1987                Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987
                                                   Arctic Artistry                                   
                                                   Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.

       Dec 1987 - Mar 1989       Contemporary Inuit Drawings
                                                   Macdonald Stewart Art Centre                      
                                                   Guelph, Ontario
                                                   (tour)
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       Jun - Sept 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
       June - July 1989                A New Day Dawning: Early Cape Dorset Prints
                                                   University of Michigan                            
                                                   Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       1990                                    Inuit Art From the Glenbow Collection
                                                   Glenbow Museum                                    
                                                   Calgary, Alberta
       February - March 1990     Inuit Drawings
                                                   Inuit Gallery of Vancouver                        
                                                   Vancouver, British Columbia
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       Jun - Sept 1990                 Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990
                                                   Arctic Artistry                                   
                                                   Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
       Nov 1990 - Feb 1991       Espaces Inuit
                                                   Maison Hamel-Bruneau                              
                                                   Ste-Foy, Quebec
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       Dec 1991 - Mar 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
       March - April 1992            Selections from the McMaster Art Gallery
                                                   Collection                                        
                                                   McMaster Art Gallery                              
                                                   Hamilton, Ontario
       Nov 1993 - Jan 1994        Contemporary Inuit Drawings
                                                   Muscarelle Museum of Art                          
                                                   College of William and Mary                       
                                                   Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)
       Mar - Aug 1994                 Kunst aus der Arktis
                                                   Volkerkundmuseum der Universitat Zurich           
                                                   Zurich, Switzerland
                                                   (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.
       May - Sept 1995               Keeping Our Stories Alive:
                                                   An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts               
                                                   from Dene and Inuit of Canada                     
                                                   Institute of American Indian Arts Museum          
                                                   Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
                                                   (illustrated catalogue)

       June 1995                          Cape Dorset Engravings and Etchings
                                                   from the Sixties                                  
                                                   Arctic Artistry                                   
                                                   Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
       July 1995                            Sunakutagnuvalautut:
                                                   Things from the Past                              
                                                   Feheley Fine Art                                  
                                                   Toronto, Ontario
       SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
       November 1973                [Jamasie Teevee]
                                                   Fleet Galleries                                   
                                                   Winnipeg, Manitoba
       August 1974                      Prints and Drawings by Jamasie
                                                   Inukshuk Galleries                                
                                                   Waterloo, Ontario
       June 1981                          Jamasie Retrospective
                                                   Canadiana Galleries                               
                                                   Edmonton, Alberta
       COLLECTIONS:
       Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario            
       Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.       
       Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.      
       Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia            
       Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario          
       Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario        
       Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick        
       Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario            
       Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec         
       Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec        
       Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta          
       Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.                    
       Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta          
       GE Canada Inuit Art Collection, Mississauga, Ontario      
       Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta          
       Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ontario   
       London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario      
       Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario         
       McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario       
       McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario        
       Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan             
       Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia                  
       National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario    
       Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick      
       Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories    
       Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario        
       Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario       
       University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta   
       University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta     
       University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.     
       University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick        
       Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia        
       Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba            
       HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS:
                Mintmark Press Special Editions, Toronto. Jamasie is one of several artists
                whose reproductions are presented in folios by Mintmark Press.
       1973     Received a Canada Council grant to travel to Winnipeg to attend the
                opening of an exhibition of his works at Fleet Galleries.
       1976     His image Animals and Man was part of a portfolio that was commissioned for
                presentation to the participants in the United Nations Habitat Conference
                held in Vancouver in 1976; the print appears in the Cape Dorset Graphic annual
                catalogue of 1981.

       1980     Commissioned by Theo Waddington to produce a limited edition portfolio of
                six prints, these works are documented in the Cape Dorset Graphic annual
                catalogue of 1980.
       1981     Mintmark Press commissioned a stonecut by Jamasie, also included in the Cape
                Dorset Graphic annual catalogue of 1982.
       1982     'Etchings Portfolio V: Timiat'. Jamasie was one of three artists who
                contributed to a special folio of work, documented in the Cape Dorset Graphic
                annual catalogue of 1982.
       1984     Norgraphics Commission. Jamasie was one of three artists to produce a
                collection of limited edition etchings; documented in the Cape Dorset Graphic
                annual catalogue of 1985.
       1989     A folio of prints by Jamasie released by Aux Multiples entitled
                'Jamasie Teevee 1910-1985'.
       SELECTED REFERENCES:
                                                         
           ARTS OF THE ESKIMO: PRINTS:  /Ed. by Ernst Roch. Texts by
           Patrick Furneaux and Leo Rosshandler.  Montreal: Signum Press in
           association with Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1974.
       Baele, Nancy                                      
           INUIT ART:  A new show comes to the National Gallery.  Ottawa
           Citizen, January 13, 1989.
       Beaverbrook Art Gallery                           
           THE MURRAY AND MARGUERITE VAUGHAN INUIT PRINT COLLECTION =
           COLLECTION D'ESTAMPES INUIT:  An Exhibition Organized and
           Circulated by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Canada.
           Fredericton: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 1981.
       Blodgett, Jean                                    
           ESKIMO NARRATIVE.  Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979.


       Blodgett, Jean                                    
           GRASP TIGHT THE OLD WAYS:  Selections from the Klamer Family
           Collection of Inuit Art.  Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983.
       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.  Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Dev.
           INUNNIT:  The Art of the Canadian Eskimo = L'art des Eskimaux du
           Canada. / by W. T. Larmour. French translation by Jacques
           Brunet.  Ottawa: Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
           Development, 1967.
       Collinson, Helen                                  
           INUIT GAMES AND CONTESTS:  The Clifford E. Lee Collection of
           Prints.  Edmonton: The University of Alberta Collections, 1978.
       Driscoll, Bernadette                              
           UUMAJUT:  Animal Imagery in Inuit art.  Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art
           Gallery, 1985.
       Gustavison, Susan J.                              
           ARCTIC EXPRESSIONS:  INUIT ART AND THE CANADIAN ESKIMO ARTS
           COUNCIL 1961 - 1989.  Kleinburg, Ont.:  McMichael Canadian Art
           Collection, 1994.
       Hassler, Gitta                                    
           KUNST AUS DER ARKTIS:  GRAPHIKEN DER INUIT IN KANADA.  Zurich:
           Volkerkundmuseum der Universitat Zurich, 1994.
       Institute of American Indian Arts Museum          
           KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE:  An Exhibition of Art and Crafts from
           Dene and Inuit of Canada.  Santa Fe, N.M.: Institute of American
           Native Arts Museum, 1995.
       Inuit Gallery of Vancouver                        
           INUIT DRAWINGS.  Vancouver: Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, 1990.

       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.
       National Museum of Man                            
           THE INUIT PRINT = L'ESTAMPE INUIT:  A Travelling Exhibition... =
           Une exposition itinerante...  Ottawa: National Museum of Man,
           National Museums of Canada, 1977.
       Routledge, Marie                                  
           INUIT ART IN THE 1970s/L'ART INUIT ACTUEL: 1970-79.  Kingston,
           Ont. : The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1979.
       Swinton, Nelda                                    
           LA DEESSE INUITE DE LA MER. = THE INUIT SEA GODDESS.  Montreal:
           Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1980.
       Winnipeg Art Gallery                              
           CAPE DORSET.  Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979.