Pitaloosie Saila

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SUMMER FEAST
SUMMER FEAST
Pitaloosie Saila
Cape Dorset (Kinngait), 1988
stonecut
18 x 24 in. $900.00 CAD
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STAR GAZING
STAR GAZING
Pitaloosie Saila
Kinngait (Cape Dorset), 2004
Lithograph
30 x 22 in. $1,400.00 CAD
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LOON AT SUNRISE
LOON AT SUNRISE
Pitaloosie Saila
Kinngait (Cape Dorset), 1994
Lithograph
22 x 29 3/4 in. $2,000.00 CAD

Pitaloosie Saila (1942-2021) began drawing in the early 1960s and since then has consistently maintained an individual style. Her work has been included in the Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection since 1968.

Notably frequent within Saila’s imagery is the mother and child, where the the matriarch is depicted as strong and nurturing. Additionally, Saila’s subject matter commonly includes animals, particularly birds. Her bold images lend themselves well to the print medium, especially lithography. Saila’s coveted lithographs reveal a masterful use of the medium in which many of her iconic images were made.

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Selected Exhibitions

2019 60/60
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, ON

2016 Pitaloosie Saila: A Print Retrospective
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, ON

2004 Sanaasimasiatok/Fine Works: Sculpture from Cape Dorset
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, ON

2003 The Inuit Icon: Selections from Private Collections
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, ON

1996 – 1997 Pitaloosie & Pauta
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, ON

1994 – 1995 Isumavut: The Artistic Expression of Nine Cape Dorset Women
Canadian Museum of History

1993 – 1994 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA

1991 – 1992 In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades of Inuit Printmaking
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON

1989 – 1991 Kenojuak Ashevak, Lucy Qinnuayuak, Pitaloosie Saila – Flights of Fancy
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, ON

1988 – 1989 In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art in Canada / Im Schatten der Sonne: Zeitgenossische Kunstder Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada
Canadian Museum of History

Selected References

Blodgett, Jean. Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family
Collection of Inuit Art. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983.

Hessel, Ingo. Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard
Museum. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2006.

Hessel, Ingo. Inuit Art: An Introduction. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2002.

Leroux, et. al. Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorset.
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1996.

Ryan, Leslie Boyd. Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective. San Francisco:
Pomegranate, 2007.

HONOURS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

2002 Elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Arts at the same time as her husband, Pauta Saila.

1994 She was one of six artists featured in “Inuit Women Artists”, an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada and a major publication.

1985 Her lithograph entitled “In the Hills” represented the Northwest Territories in the centennial celebration of the National Parks of Canada.

1977 Canada Post issued a stamp depicting her print “Fisherman’s Dawn”.

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