Home > Artist Database > Bio-bibliographic Database > RAGEE, Egevadluq
Artist Database
RAGEE, Egevadluq
- Born
- Ikirasak Camp, Nunavut, 1920
- Died
- Cape Dorset, Nunavut, 1983
- Biography synopsis
- Egevadluq Ragee (Eegivudluk, Eegyvudtuk, Egyvudlo, Eegeevadluk, Eegyvudluk, Eevudlook, Eegyvadluk) was born in a small camp, Ikirasak, near Cape Dorset, in what was then the Northwest Territories. After marrying her second husband, Sakkiassie Ragee, the couple moved to Nuvudjuak and then later to Tikerak, camps near Cape Dorset. Egevadluq would often go into Cape Dorset to trade during the early years of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, the first artistic cooperative of its kind. Sheowak and Napatchie Pootoogook, two other women artists, encouraged Ragee to start drawing, which she did along with her husband. Ragee was interested in drawing figures and birds, as well as images of the traditional life of the Inuit. Unusual for Cape Dorset artists of the period, she often shaded in large areas with small, short strokes or designs to add texture to the images. In 1967, after some of her drawings had been made into prints for the early print collections, Ragee and her family moved into Cape Dorset where she lived for the rest of her life. In the late 1970s Ragee was introduced to painting and became one of the first Inuit in Cape Dorset to work with acrylics. This lead to a solo exhibit of her acrylic works in Montreal in 1980. Along with this solo show, Ragee's work has been included in exhibitions around Canada and as far away as Jerusalem. Examples of her work are owned by a variety of museum and galleries across Canada, including the Canadian Museum of History and the National Gallery of Canada, as well as the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. She has two children involved in the arts community in Cape Dorset, Sorosilutu Onalik, a graphic artist and carver, and Peter Ragee, a stencil-maker. Egevadluq Ragee should not be confused with Eegyvudluk Pootoogook, a carver also from Cape Dorset.
- Media used
- Acrylics
- Drawing
- Pen and Ink
- Printmaking
- Wax crayon
- File & Archive locations
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- University of Calgary Library, AB
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Biographies of Inuit Artists, Volumes One and Two Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers, Arctic Co-operatives Limited, 1984
- Dorset 77: Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection 1977 Toronto: M.F. Feheley, 1977
- Dorset 78: Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection Toronto: M.F. Feheley Publishing, 1978
- Dorset 80: Cape Dorset Graphics Annual Toronto: M.F. Feheley Publishers, 1980
- Dorset 81: Cape Dorset Annual Toronto: Feheley, 1981
- Dorset 82: Cape Dorset Graphics Annual Toronto: M.F. Feheley Publishers, 1982
- Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics from the Margaret P. Hess Collection Jerusalem, Israel: Jerusalem Artists' House Museum, 1978
- Albers Gallery of Inuit Art. Paintings from Cape Dorset. San Francisco, California: 2000
- Barz, Sandra. Inuit Artists Print Workbook New York: Arts & Culture of the North, 1990
- Beaverbrook Art Gallery. The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit Print Collection. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 1981
- Blakeman, Evelyn. "Stones, Bones, Cloth and Paper: Inuit Art in Edmonton Collections." Inuit Art Enthusiasts Newsletter (Dec. 1984): 1-3
- Blodgett, Jean. In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking Kleinburg, Ont.: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1991
- Bunkamura Art Gallery. Sojourns to Nunavut: Contemporary Inuit Art from Canada. Tokyo, Japan: University of British Columbia Press, 1991
- Cortenova, Giorgio. Immaginario Inuit: Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi Verona, Italy: Comune di Verona, 1995
- Crandall, Richard C. Inuit Art: A History Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2000
- Crandall, Richard C. and Susan M. Crandall. An Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2001
- Department of External Affairs, Canada. Graphic Art by Eskimos of Canada: First Collection. Ottawa: 1970
- Driscoll-Engelstad, Bernadette. The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood to Be Full Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1980
- Eber, Dorothy. "The History of Graphics in Dorset: Long and Viable." Canadian Forum 54.649 (Mar. 1975): 29-31
- Eber, Dorothy Harley. "Eskimo Penny Fashions." North 20.1 (Jan.-Feb. 1973): 37-39
- Goetz, Helga. The Inuit Print / L'estampe inuit. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1977
- Gustavison, Susan. Arctic Expressions: Inuit Art and the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, 1961-1989 Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1994
- Gustavison, Susan J.. Imaak Takujavut: Paintings from Cape Dorset Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1996
- Hill, Charles C. and Pierre B. Landry, eds.. Canadian Art: Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1994
- Lester, Patrick David. The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters. Tulsa, Oklahoma: SIR Publications, 1995
- Lipsett, Katherine. Spoken in Stone: An Exhibition of Inuit Art featuring the FitzGerald and Whyte Collections Banff, Alberta: Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, 1989
- Lister, Beverly-Ann. "Images of the Inuit." Images of the Inuit: From the Simon Fraser Collection Burnaby, British Columbia: The Simon Fraser Gallery, 1979
- Macdonald, John. "Tauvijjuaq; The Great Darkness." Inuit Art Quarterly 8.2 (Summer 1993): 19-25
- McKendry, Blake. A to Z of Canadian Art: Artists and Art Terms Kingston: B. McKendry, 1997
- Pelaudeix, Cécil. Art inuit: formes de l'âme et representations de l'être. Grenoble, France: Éd. de Pise, 2007
- Pépin, Yves. Time to Draw / Le temps de dessiner Ottawa: Cultural Affairs Division, Department of External Affairs, 1987
- Reeves, John. "The Women Artists of Cape Dorset." City and Country Home (Apr. 1985): 35-43
- Routledge, Marie and Marion E. Jackson. Pudlo: Thirty Years of Drawing. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1990
- Swinton, George. Eskimo Fantastic Art: An Exhibition Organized for Gallery 111 Winnipeg: Gallery 111, 1972
- University of New Brunswick Art Centre. Inuit Art in the UNB Collection. Fredericton: University of New Brunswick Art Centre, 1987
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. 1972 Cape Dorset Prints / Estampes Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, 1972
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. 1973 Cape Dorset Prints / Estampes Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, 1973
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. 1974 Cape Dorset Prints / Estampes Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, 1974
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Cape Dorset Print Collection 1970 / Collections de graveures de Cape Dorset Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, 1970
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Dorset 79: The Twentieth Annual Cape Dorset Graphics Collection Toronto: M.F. Feheley, 1979
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Eskimo Graphic Art 1962 Ottawa: Canadian Eskimo Arts Committee, 1962
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Eskimo Graphic Art 1966 / Les arts graphiques esquimaux Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, 1966
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Eskimo Graphic Art 1969 / Les arts graphiques esquimaux Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, 1969
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. Eskimo Graphic Art: The 1961 Catalogue of Stone Cuts and Seal Skin Prints from the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset in Canada's Arctic Ottawa: Mortimer, 1961
- West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. "Notes on the Artists." Dorset 76: Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection 1976/ Collection annuelle des graphiques de Cap Dorset. Toronto: M.F. Feheley Publishers, 1976