Isa Paddy Aqiattusuk Explained

Birth Date:1898
Birth Place:Inukjuak, Quebec
Death Place:Craig Harbour, Northwest Territories

Isa Paddy Aqiattusuk (1898–1954) (also known as Akeeaktashuk)[1] [2] was an Inuit artist.[3]

Early life

He was born in the Inukjuak area of Quebec.[4]

Art career

In 1953, he was a featured artist in an exhibition at London's Gimpel Fils gallery.[5]

His work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[6] the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec[7] and the Avataq Cultural Institute collection of Inuit art.[8] Many of his sculptures depict hunters.[9] [10]

Later life

Frederica Knight described him as a "friendly, outgoing man, who was fairly unsuccessful as a hunter and trapper, but whose immense talent as a stone carver was immediately recognized." The 1999 book The Canadian Encyclopedia describes him as "a jolly, robust, and outgoing man with an astonishing talent for observing and keenly portraying humans, animals, and birds in stone and ivory."[11]

He was married and had children. He died in the Craig Harbour area of the Northwest Territories, perhaps of a hunting accident, in 1954.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Inukjuak Art History. 2020-12-18. www.communitystories.ca.
  2. Web site: Inuit Art Auction Tuesday, Nov. 19. 2020-12-18. Issuu. 29 October 2019 . en.
  3. Web site: inuitartzone.com. Carving Stones. 2020-12-18. inuitartzone.com. en.
  4. Web site: Isa Paddy Aqiattusuk. 2020-12-18. www.gallery.ca. en.
  5. Book: Harney. Elizabeth. Mapping Modernisms: Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism. Phillips. Ruth B.. 2018-11-01. Duke University Press. 978-0-8223-7261-5. en.
  6. Web site: Isa Paddy Aqiattusuk.
  7. Web site: Pêcheur - Akeeaktashuk, Isa Paddy Aqiattusuk | Collections | MNBAQ.
  8. Web site: - Artifacts - Art and ethnography - Collections - Avataq.
  9. Web site: ExchangeSearch: artist:"Akeeaktashuk". 2020-12-18. exchange.umma.umich.edu.
  10. Web site: Nunavik Art Alive - Artist Profiles - Akeeaktashuk. 2020-12-18. art.avataq.qc.ca.
  11. Book: Marsh, James H.. The Canadian Encyclopedia. 1999. The Canadian Encyclopedia. 978-0-7710-2099-5. 50. en.