Eskimo Artist George Ahgupuk Pair of Framed Drawings POLAR BEAR FISHING VILLAGE - $150 - (Council Bluffs, IA)
Up for sale is a pair or George Ahgupuck drawings. These were reproduced from the originals. They have a 3D texture to the paper to give them a more realistic appearance. These are both nicely frames, ( the label saying ALASKA ) has started to wear off over the years. They come in their original box. Each drawing is approximately 4" by 5" with out the frame. These would make a great addition to your collection, and add to the beautiful history of the Eskimo life style. George Ahgupuck is one artist who was active during the mid-twentieth century and who lived through a period of extreme colonial suppression of Native peoples. Born in 1911 in Shishmaref, Ahgupuck attended government school as a young child and later worked as an artist, often hunting the seals, reindeer, and caribou on who’s heavily treated skins he drew with ink throughout his career. Typical subjects for his drawings are hunting scenes, views of towns, and landscapes. The horizon line is given distinct importance in almost all of his work, as are details of clothing and landscape, ice and sky especially. Images that speak to traditional Iñupiaq life and identity are essential to his practice. His illustrations are featured in a 1959 publication, I Am Eskimo: Aknik My Name, in which Iñupiat author Paul Green offers a self-reflexive discussion of traditional life, stories, and customs. Considered a classic work of authentic Iñupiat cultural representation, this book is one example of Native Alaskan artists’ dedication to exhibiting the dynamic relationship of artists’ present and traditional culture on their own terms and by means of their own visual language. The images may appear to be romantic illustrations of an idealized past, of “happy Eskimos,” rather than “realistic” impressions of a man’s actual experience living in an Iñupiat context. Perhaps such an expressive testament to Iñupiat peoples and history as Ahgupuck’s drawings is better interpreted as a reflection of …
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