Musk ox / Kananginak Pootoogook

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Art Item Information

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Title(s):

Musk ox

Creator(s):

Kananginak Pootoogook (Artist)

Culture:

Indigenous Canadian; Inuit

Date:

1977

Materials/Techniques:

ink on paper

Paper/Support:

Portrait; single-sided 0.143-0.153mm Eastern paper, bast fiber. Moldmade Full sheet, deckled edges, and heterogenous fiber lengths. Brown fiber bundles interspersed. Embossed, circular symbols in the lower PL corner

Classification:

Prints

Object Type:

Lithograph

Credit Line:

Gift of Dr. Irvin Braverman

Accession No:

14.1012

Previous Number(s):

TL2013.10.19

Department:

Art

Not On View

Dimensions

Overall:

Height: 27 63/64in. (71.1cm)
Width: 22 11/64in. (56.3cm)

Image:

Height: 23 5/8in. (60.0cm)
Width: 18 7/64in. (46.0cm)

Mat:

Height: 39 37/100in. (100.0cm)
Width: 27 9/16in. (70.0cm)

About the Creator(s)

From Gilcrease Museum:

Creator:

Kananginak Pootoogook

Role(s):

Artist

From Getty's Union List of Artist Names:

Names (all):

Pootoogook, Kananginak

Birth Date:

1935

Death Date:

2010

Nationalities:

First Nations (culture)

Roles:

Inuit printmaker, 1935-2010

Gender:

male

Marks and Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Omingmungjuaq" in lower left on recto; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "Stonecut 44/200 Dorset 1977" in lower center on recto

Signed: Signed by hand in pencil, "Kananginak" in lower right on recto

Tags and Search Terms

Tags:

alertness, Animals, black, brown, calmness, eyes (animal components), fur, hooves, horn, horns, Indigenous paintings included in the Henry Luce Foundation 2020-2022 project, Inuit, Items included in the Henry Luce Foundation 2020-2022 project, muskox, musk-ox wool, oxen, qiviut

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Pootoogook, Kananginak. Musk ox. 14.1012. 1977. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/141012 (08/14/2017).

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