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KINGWATSIAK, Anna

Born
Cape Dorset, Nunavut, 1911
Died
, 1971
Biography synopsis
Anna Kingwatsiak was the sister of artists Keeleemeeoomee Samualie (1919-1983), Tye Adla (1936-1990), Iyola and Mikigak Kingwatsiak. Her drawings, many of which were turned into prints by the West Baffin Island Print Cooperative, focus on Inuit imagery and life. Her work was reproduced in the Annual Cape Dorset Graphics collection in 1968, 1970, 1971, and 1973. Anna Kingwatsiak died in 1971.
Media used
Drawing
Printmaking
File & Archive locations
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
"Anna Kingwatsiak." Katilvik: Online Inuit Art Community ?
http://www.katilvik.com/content/bio/view.php?bid=1252&criteria=community&q=Cape%20Dorset
Gray, Philip Howard. Directory of Eskimo Artists in Sculpture and Prints. Bozeman, Montana: Philip Howard Gray, 1974
West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Cape Dorset Graphics. [Annual] Toronto: M.F. Feheley, 1961-1983

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