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<p>[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 169353, member: 301"]That's a poster....advertising a gallery show.....</p><p><br /></p><p>but...as for the design used.......before Mark London shows up saying this wasn't much of a challenge because she's so recognizable in her work , and so famous...</p><p><br /></p><p>Oonark, Inuit (Femme a la belle charelure), limited edition print.( but not the one posted here..! ) </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Jessie Oonark</b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Canada" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Canada" rel="nofollow">OC</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Academy_of_Arts" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Academy_of_Arts" rel="nofollow">RCA</a> ( <b>ᔨᐊᓯ ᐅᓈᖅ</b>; 2 March 1906 - 7 March 1985) was a prolific, influential <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians" rel="nofollow">Canadian</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit" rel="nofollow">Inuit</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist" rel="nofollow">artist</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utkuhiksalik" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utkuhiksalik" rel="nofollow">Utkuhihalingmiut</a><i>Utkuhiksalingmiut</i>whose wall hangings, prints and drawings are in major collections including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Canada" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Canada" rel="nofollow">National Gallery of Canada</a>. She was born in 1906 in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantrey_Inlet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantrey_Inlet" rel="nofollow">Chantrey Inlet</a>(<i>Tariunnuaq</i>) area,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-NGC-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-NGC-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> near the estuary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_River" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_River" rel="nofollow">Back River</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keewatin_District" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keewatin_District" rel="nofollow">Keewatin District</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories" rel="nofollow">Northwest Territories</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Bouchard_1987_IAQ-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Bouchard_1987_IAQ-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>:4 (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut" rel="nofollow">Nunavut</a>)—the traditional lands of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utkuhiksalik" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utkuhiksalik" rel="nofollow">Utkukhalingmiut</a><i>Utkukhalingmiut</i>, <i>Utkukhalingmiut</i> (<i>the people of the place where there is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapstone" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapstone" rel="nofollow">soapstone</a></i>). Her artwork portrays aspects of the traditional hunter-nomadic life that she lived for over five decades, moving from fishing camp near the mouth of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_River" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_River" rel="nofollow">Back River</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantrey_Inlet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantrey_Inlet" rel="nofollow">Chantrey Inlet</a> in the Honoraru<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Mame_Jackson_1983-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Mame_Jackson_1983-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>:3 area to their caribou hunting camp in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Lake" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Lake" rel="nofollow">Garry Lake</a> area,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Mame_Jackson_1983-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Mame_Jackson_1983-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>:10 living in winter snow houses (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo" rel="nofollow">igloos</a>) and caribou skin tents in the summer.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a> Oonark learned early how to prepare skins and sew caribou skin clothing. They subsisted mainly on trout (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_trout" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_trout" rel="nofollow">lake trout</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_char" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_char" rel="nofollow">Arctic char</a>), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_whitefish" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_whitefish" rel="nofollow">whitefish</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barren-ground_caribou" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barren-ground_caribou" rel="nofollow">barren-ground caribou</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> The knife used by women, the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulu" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulu" rel="nofollow">ulu</a></i>, their clothing, the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukluk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukluk" rel="nofollow">kamik</a></i>, the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amauti" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amauti" rel="nofollow">amauti</a></i> were recurring themes in her work.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Mame_Jackson_1983-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Mame_Jackson_1983-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> Oonark has had a major museum retrospective with accompanying scholarly monograph.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Berlo-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Berlo-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> Despite a late start - she was 54 years old when her work was first published - she was a very active and prolific artist over the next 19 years, creating a body of work that won considerable critical acclaim and made her one of Canada's best known Inuit artists.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 169353, member: 301"]That's a poster....advertising a gallery show..... but...as for the design used.......before Mark London shows up saying this wasn't much of a challenge because she's so recognizable in her work , and so famous... Oonark, Inuit (Femme a la belle charelure), limited edition print.( but not the one posted here..! ) [B]Jessie Oonark[/B], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Canada']OC[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Academy_of_Arts']RCA[/URL] ( [B]ᔨᐊᓯ ᐅᓈᖅ[/B]; 2 March 1906 - 7 March 1985) was a prolific, influential [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians']Canadian[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit']Inuit[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist']artist[/URL] of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utkuhiksalik']Utkuhihalingmiut[/URL][I]Utkuhiksalingmiut[/I]whose wall hangings, prints and drawings are in major collections including the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Canada']National Gallery of Canada[/URL]. She was born in 1906 in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantrey_Inlet']Chantrey Inlet[/URL]([I]Tariunnuaq[/I]) area,[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-NGC-3'][3][/URL] near the estuary of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_River']Back River[/URL] in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keewatin_District']Keewatin District[/URL] of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territories']Northwest Territories[/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Bouchard_1987_IAQ-4'][4][/URL]:4 (now [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut']Nunavut[/URL])—the traditional lands of the[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utkuhiksalik']Utkukhalingmiut[/URL][I]Utkukhalingmiut[/I], [I]Utkukhalingmiut[/I] ([I]the people of the place where there is [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapstone']soapstone[/URL][/I]). Her artwork portrays aspects of the traditional hunter-nomadic life that she lived for over five decades, moving from fishing camp near the mouth of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_River']Back River[/URL] on [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantrey_Inlet']Chantrey Inlet[/URL] in the Honoraru[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Mame_Jackson_1983-1'][1][/URL]:3 area to their caribou hunting camp in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Lake']Garry Lake[/URL] area,[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Mame_Jackson_1983-1'][1][/URL]:10 living in winter snow houses ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo']igloos[/URL]) and caribou skin tents in the summer.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-5'][5][/URL] Oonark learned early how to prepare skins and sew caribou skin clothing. They subsisted mainly on trout ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_trout']lake trout[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_char']Arctic char[/URL]), [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_whitefish']whitefish[/URL], and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barren-ground_caribou']barren-ground caribou[/URL].[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-6'][6][/URL] The knife used by women, the [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulu']ulu[/URL][/I], their clothing, the [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukluk']kamik[/URL][/I], the [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amauti']amauti[/URL][/I] were recurring themes in her work.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Mame_Jackson_1983-1'][1][/URL] Oonark has had a major museum retrospective with accompanying scholarly monograph.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark#cite_note-Berlo-7'][7][/URL] Despite a late start - she was 54 years old when her work was first published - she was a very active and prolific artist over the next 19 years, creating a body of work that won considerable critical acclaim and made her one of Canada's best known Inuit artists.[/QUOTE]
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