Bernadette Iguptark Tongelik Explained

Birth Date:1931
Birth Place:Wager Bay, Northwest Territories (now part of Nunavut)
Death Place:Repulse Bay (Naujaat), Northwest Territories (now part of Nunavut)

Bernadette Iguptark Tongelik (1931-1980) was an Inuk artist known for her sculptural works.

Early life

Bernadette Iguptark Tongelik was born in 1931 in Wager Bay, Nunavut to Irene Kataq Angutitok and Anthanese Angutitok, who were both artists.[1]

Work

Tongelik works in hand-carved stone. Transformation is a theme she works with; frequently her sculptures represent animals that shape-shift into human form.[2]

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[3] the Government of Nunavut[4] and the Winnipeg Art Gallery,[5] [6] York University art collection, the Museum of Anthropology,[7] the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum,[8] among others.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Irene Kataq Angutitok . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240128171639/https://inuit.net/artists/b-inuitarteskimoart-Angutitok_Irene-Kataq.html . 28 January 2024 . 28 January 2024 . Inuit.net - Aboriginart Galleries.
  2. Web site: Artists - Bernadette Iguptark Tongelik (1931–1980) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240128135207/https://collection.ggyu.art/personality/bernadette-iguptark-tongelik/29758 . 28 January 2024 . 28 January 2024 . York University.
  3. Web site: Bernadette Iguptark Tongelik . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230122175822/https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/bernadette-iguptark-tongelik . 22 January 2023 . 8 May 2024 . National Gallery of Canada.
  4. Web site: 15 March 2016 . Rarely seen Inuit art revealed by Winnipeg Art Gallery for first time in a generation . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190729140632/http://artdaily.com/news/85791/Rarely-seen-Inuit-art-revealed-by-Winnipeg-Art-Gallery-for-first-time-in-a-generation . 29 July 2019 . 8 May 2024 . ArtDaily.
  5. Web site: Art Search - Winnipeg Art Gallery. www.wag.ca. 2019-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20190512021116/https://www.wag.ca/art/art-search/display,result/57095. 2019-05-12. dead.
  6. Book: Wight . The Jerry Twomey Collection at the Winnipeg Art Gallery: Inuit sculpture from the Canadian Arctic . . 2003 . 978-0-88915-223-6 . 110 . en . 52108082 . registration . Internet Archive.
  7. Web site: http://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/search/person[?person=3158 Bernadette Iguptark Tongelik (1931–1080) ]. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240509031544/http://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/search/person%5B%5D?person=3158 . 9 May 2024 . 28 January 2024 . Museum of Anthropology.
  8. Web site: Collections: Contemporary Art . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240128171022/https://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/collections/contemporary-art.html . 28 January 2024 . 28 January 2024 . Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum.

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