Artist Info
Eegyvudluk Pootoogook
Eegyvudluk Pootoogook (Disc Number: E7-865)
1931 - 2000
Eegyvudluk Pootoogook was a printmaker and sculptor. He was born in Ikarasak camp, and in 1960 he and his family moved to Kinngait, Nunavut. Eegyvudluk was involved with the Kinngait Cooperative, once referred to as the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, where he engaged with different printmaking methods including stonecut, sealskin and stencil, stonecut and stencil, etching, and linocut. He also printed other artists’ work at the cooperative, and his own works were often in the annual Cape Dorset Print Collections. He learnt printing techniques from the Japanese master Un’ichi Hiratsuka. Exhibitions have shown both his stone carvings and prints, including in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Cape Dorset: Selected Sculpture from the Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Night Spirits: Cape Dorset 1960-1965, The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art; and The First Passionate Collector: The Ian Lindsay Collection of Inuit Art; the Frye Art Museum’s Arctic Spirit 35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art; the McMichael Canadian Collection’s In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking and Inuit Masterworks: Selections from the Collection of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; the Inuit Gallery of Vancouver’s Baffin Island Sculpture, Cape Dorset Stone Sculpture: Masters & the Next Generation, and Masterwork Sculpture 1986 the Glenbow Museum’s From Drawing to Print: Perceptions and Process in Cape Dorset Art among many others. His work was also at the exhibition presented by the Amway Corporation at the United Nations General Assembly titled Masters of the Arctic: An Exhibition of Contemporary Inuit Masterworks. The artwork of Eegyvudluk Pootoogook is held in numerous public collections including: The Glenbow Museum, the UBC Museum of Anthropology, the Tate Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. During his career he produced 170 prints; he passed away in 2000.
Daughter: Annie Pootoogook
Spouse: Napatchie Pootoogook
Brothers: Kananginak Pootoogook, Paulassie Pootoogook
