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Books from the library of Home and Away Gallery of Arctic Arts and Jewelry

Can’t get enough of Inuit Art?

Here is a list of books titles to consider.

The following 26 books titles come from the Home and Away Gallery of Arctic Arts and Jewelry’s library. It represents a partial list from their larger library and is presented here with their kind permission.

It does not appear that these books are for sale through Home and Away, but Amazon would be a good alternate source.

Special thanks to IAS board member Claude Weil for submitting this valuable list and obtaining permission for incorporation into the IAS website.

  1. Masters of the Arctic: Art in the Service of the Earth
    Amway Environmental Foundation et al
    1989
  2. Art Inuit: Contemporary Sculpture and Print of the Canadian Eskimo, Fragments Editions
    Baud, Claude; Brice, Irene; Jacot, Michel
    (France), 1997
  3. The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art
    Blodgett, Jean
    The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978
  4. Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art
    Blodgett, Jean
    Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983
  5. Three Women, Three Generations: Drawings by Pitseolak Ashoona, Napachie Pootoogook and Shuvinai Ashoona
    Blodgett, Jean
    McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1999
  6. Strange Scenes: Early Cape Dorset Drawings
    Blodgett, Jean and Gustavison, Susan
    McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1993
  7. Carved from the Land: the Eskimo Museum Collection
    Brandson, Lorraine E.
    Churchill, Manitoba Eskimo Museum, 1993
  8. Sculpture/Inuit
    Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
    Univerity of Toronto Press, 1971
  9. Inuit Art: a History
    Crandall, Richard C.
    McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, 2000
  10. The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood to Be Full
    Driscoll, Bernadette
    The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1980
  11. Arctic Expressions: Inuit Art and the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council 1961-1989
    Gustavison, Susan
    McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1994
  12. Northern Rock: Contemporary Inuit Stone Sculpture
    Gustavison, Susan
    McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1999
  13. Inuit Art
    Hessel, Ingo
    Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1998
  14. Inuit Art, an Anthology
    Houston, Alma (editor)
    Watson & Dyer Publishing, 1988
  15. Inuit Women Artists
    Leroux, Odette et al
    Chronicle Books, 1996
  16. Lords of the Stone: an Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture
    MacDuff, Alistari and Galpin, George M.
    Whitecap Books, 1983
  17. Canadian Arctic Prehistory
    McGhee, Robert
    Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, 1990
  18. Things Made by Inuit
    Myers, Marybelle
    La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau Quebec, 1980
  19. Napachie Pootoogook
    Ryan, Leslie Boyd and Wight, Darlene Coward
    The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2004
  20. Guardians of Memory: Sculpture-Women of Nunavik
    Saucier, Celine
    L’Instant Meme, 1998
  21. The Inuit Imagination
    Seidelman, Harold and Turner, James
    Douglas & McIntyre, 1993
  22. Image Inuit du Nouveau Quebec
    Saucier, Celine and Kedl, Eugen
    Musee de la Civlisation
  23. Sculpture of the Inuit
    Swinton, George
    McClelland and Stewart, 1972 (revised 1999)
  24. Celebrating Inuit Art 1948 – 1970
    Von Finckenstein, Maria
    Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, 1999
  25. Art & Expression of the Netsilik
    Wight, Darlene Coward
    The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2000
  26. The First Passionate Collector: the Ian Lindsay Collection of Inuit Art
    Wight, Darlene Coward
    The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1990

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Gabriel J. Rosenberg The IAS Board wishes to acknowledge the contributions of out going board president, Gabriel J. Rosenberg, M.D. and thank him for his leadership.

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