Axangayuk Shaa Biography

Date of Birth/Date de naissance 03/17/1937

Community/Communauté Cape Dorset

Collections

Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A. Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories James and Mary Jack Collection, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pa., U.S.A. Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario Macmillan-Bloedel Limited, Vancouver, British Columbia McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, U.S.A. Inuit Art Source, Northern REflections, San Diego US,Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

References ARTS OF THE ESKIMO: PRINTS: /Ed. by Ernst Roch. Texts by Patrick Furneaux and Leo Rosshandler. Montreal: Signum Press in association with Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1974.

PORTRAIT OF A CANADIAN SCULPTOR. Saturday Night, June 1970.

Blodgett, Jean GRASP TIGHT THE OLD WAYS: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983.

Canadian Eskimo Arts Council SCULPTURE/INUIT: Sculpture of the Inuit: masterworks of the Canadian Arctic = La sculpture chez les Inuit: chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Arctique canadien. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. London: Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1971.

Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec CANADIAN GUILD OF CRAFTS QUEBEC. = GUILDE CANADIENNE DES METIERS D'ART QUEBEC: The Permanent Collection: Inuit Arts and Crafts, c. 1900-1980. Montreal: Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, 1980.

Dewar, Patricia YOU HAD TO BE THERE. Nepean,Ont.: Inuit Art Quarterly, 9(1) Spring 1994, pp. 20-28.

Driscoll, Bernadette THE INUIT COLLECTION OF THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY. Canadian Antiques & Art Review, vol. 2, no. 17, April, 1981. pp.36-41.

French, Orland BLUE CHIP ART: Inuit Art Still 15 Per Cent Investment: 'there doesn't seem to be an end to it'. Ottawa Citizen, August 12, 1978.

Institute of American Indian Arts Museum KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE: An Exhibition of Art and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada. Santa Fe, N.M.: Institute of American Native Arts Museum, 1995.

Inuit Art Collection CAPE DORSET: Sculptors and their Sculpture. Manchester, Conn.: The Inuit Art Collection, 1981.

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver SCULPTURE OF THE INUIT: Masterwork Exhibitors of the Canadian Arctic. Vancouver: Inuit Gallery, 1979.

Macduff, Alistair LORDS OF THE STONE: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture. / By Alistair Macduff. Photographs by George M. Galpin. North Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1982.

Malone, Judy CONTRASTS VIVIDLY SHOWN BY TWO ESKIMO ARTISTS. London Evening Free Press, February 28, 1977.

Marion Scott Gallery ARCTIC ICE: SCULPTURES IN MARBLE BY THE ARTISTS OF CAPE DORSET, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery, 1992.

Swinton, George ESKIMO ART RECONSIDERED. Artscanada, vol. 27, no. 6, December-January, 1971-72. pp.85-94.

Swinton, George ESKIMO SCULPTURE. = SCULPTURE ESQUIMAUDE. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1965.

Swinton, George SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.