Egevadluq Ragee, Sea Spirit, 1965

Description

This artwork titled "Sea Spirit" 1965 is an original stonecut on thin paper by Eskimo artist Egevadluq (Eegyvudluk) Ragee, 1920-1983. … more This artwork titled "Sea Spirit" 1965 is an original stonecut on thin paper by Eskimo artist Egevadluq (Eegyvudluk) Ragee, 1920-1983. It is hand signed, titled, dated, described and numbered 20/50 in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the artist at the lower right corner. It is in excellent condition. it has a minor thin crease at the middle center, at the edge of the sheet, barely visible, see picture #4

About the artist:

Eegyvudluk Ragee was the oldest child born to Pamiaktok and Sorisolutu at the small campsite of Ikarasak, on the southern tip of Baffin Island in 1920.

When Egevadluq travelled to Cape Dorset (Kinngait) to trade for supplies, she would buy graphite pencil and paper from the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Her early works filled entire sheets of paper, mythical creatures, bird-animal-human transformations, and images from reality - all randomly intermingled . By the mid-1960s, Eegyvudluk was using wax crayons, or coloured felt pens on paper.

In 1967, improved housing in Cape Dorset resulted in the Inuit abandoning most of the campsites. Eegyvudluk moved into the settlement, and by the early 1970s, explored the use of arcrylic washes, on which she drew her well-known figures and birds.

"I started drawing because I was 'tususkuk' (when I saw other people doing it, I wanted to do the same things)...When I start to make a drawing, I have a picture in my mind, but when I try to put that picture on paper, my hands won't do what my mind wants. When I have the picture in my head, I can't get it out by my hands. Sometimes I find it hard to draw when my children are in the house; I find it hard to think with so much noise around me. I make the kids go outside." Eegyvudluk, Cape Dorset Print Catalogue, 1978.


Exhibitions

Alaska Eskimo Dolls/Inuit Prints, Provincial Museum of Alberta, sponsored by the Alaska State Council on the Arts
ART ESKIMO, Galerie de France
Art Inuit, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Galerie Akenaton
Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape Dorset 1991, Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai at Le Colombier
Art/Facts, McMaster Art Gallery
Art/Facts, McMaster Art Gallery
Canadian Eskimo Arts Festival, Alaska Methodist University Galleries
Canadian Eskimo Lithographs: Third Collection, Presented under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Division of the Department of External Affairs Canada
Cape Dorset - A Decade of Eskimo Prints & Recent Sculpture, National Gallery of Canada, in cooperation with the Canadian Eskimo Art Committee
Cape Dorset Engravings, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, circulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario
Cape Dorset Graphics *60, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *61, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *62, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *64/65, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *66, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *69, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *70, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *72, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *73, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *74, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *75, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *76, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *77, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *78, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *79, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *80, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *81, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Graphics *82, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Print Collection (printmaker) *60, (annual collection)
Cape Dorset Revisited, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Cape Dorset Revisited - a collection of previously unreleased prints, exhibited at selected commercial galleries, organized by, West Baffin Eskimo Co-op
Contemporary Canadian Eskimo Art, Gimpel Fils
Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary
Eegyvudluk Ragee: Acrylic Works on Paper, Elca London Gallery
Eskimo Fantastic Art, Gallery 111, School of Art, University of Manitoba
Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/ Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture, National Gallery of Modern Art
Graphic Art by Eskimos of Canada: First Collection, Cultural Affairs Division, Department of External Affairs, Canada
Graphics from the UNB Collection, University of New Brunswick
Imaak Takujavut: The way we see it Paintings from Cape Dorset, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Images of the Inuit: from the Simon Fraser Collection, Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University
Immaginario Inuit Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Inuit Graphic Art from Indian & Northern Affairs Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery
Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990, Arctic Artistry
Inuit Graphics from the Past, Arctic Artistry
Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare Prints from the Arctic, Arctic Artistry
Inuit Prints, University of New Brunswick Long Gallery, St. John Campus
Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987, Arctic Artistry
Inuit Woman: Life and Legend in Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
Media and Techniques, McMaster Art Gallery
Moving Around the Form: Inuit Sculpture and Prints, Agnes Etherington Art Centre Queen's University
New Acquisitions, Laurentian University Museum and Art Gallery
Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960-1965, Winnipeg Art Gallery
On the Land, The Arctic Circle
Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics, Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
Return of the Birds, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Return to Origins, The Arctic Circle
Return to Origins III, The Arctic Circle
Selections from the McMaster Art Gallery Collection, McMaster Art Gallery
Sojourns to Nunavut: Contemporary Inuit Art from Canada, at Bunkamura Art Gallery, presented by the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology and The McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Spoken in Stone: an exhibition of Inuit Art, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Stones, Bones, Cloth, and Paper: Inuit Art in Edmonton Collections, Edmonton Art Gallery
The Art of the Eskimo, Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University
The Cape Dorset Print, Presented at Rideau Hall by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood To Be Full, Winnipeg Art Gallery
The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man
The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher Collection of Inuit Art, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina
The Lindsay and Swartz Collections: New Acquisitions, Winnipeg Art Gallery
The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit Print Collection, Beaverbrook Art Gallery
The World Around Me, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection of Inuit Art, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection of Inuit Art, Canadian Guild of Craft Quebec

Collections

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor
Art Gallery of York University, Downsview
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City
Department of Foreign Affairs, Ottawa
Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife
Red Deer and District Museum and Archives, Red Deer
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
Teleglobe Canada, Montreal
Toronto-Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto
University of Alberta, Edmonton
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg less