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ITTULUKATNAK, Martha
- Born
- Baker Lake, Nunavut, 1912
- Died
- ?, 1981
- Biography synopsis
- Martha Ittulukatnak (also known as Ittuluka'naaq Ittuluka'naaq, Martha Ittuluka'naaq, Etoolookutna Ittuluka'naaq, Ittulukatnak Ittuluka'naaq, Itoolookutna Ittuluka'naaq, Ittoolookutna Ittuluka'naaq, Ittuluk'nanq) was born along the Kazen River of the Canadian Central Arctic. She lived a nomadic lifestyle until settling in Baker Lake in 1961 when she began to produce pencil and crayon drawings which served as the basis for many prints produced by the Baker Lake Sanavik Cooperative. The Cooperative produced eight of her works between 1970 and 1977; they focused on human figures and the animals of the Arctic. Ittuluktnak’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is found in the collections of the Canadian Museum of History, Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Guelph. and the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife.
- Media used
- Printmaking
- File & Archive locations
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Martha Ittuluka'naaq." Katilvik: Online Inuit Art Community 2012
http://katilvik.com/browse/artists/495-martha-itulukanaaq - Crandall, Richard C. Inuit Art: A History Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2000
- Driscoll, Bernadette and Sheila Butler. Baker Lake Prints and Print Drawings. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983
- Driscoll-Engelstad, Bernadette. The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood to Be Full Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1980
- Goetz, Helga. The Inuit Print / L'estampe inuit Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1977
- Heller, Jules and Nancy. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century New York: Garland, 1995
- Jackson, Marion E. & Judith Nasby. Contemporary Inuit Drawings Guelph, Ontario: MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, 1987
- Lester, Patrick David. The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters Tulsa, Oklahoma: SIR Publications, 1995
- MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009
