Jamasie

Jamasie Teevee, Playmates

Jamasie Teevee
1910-1985
Inuit/Kinngait (Cape Dorset)
Date
1974
Medium Specific
Engraving
Edition / State
16/50
Publisher
Cape Dorset
Classification
Print
Dimensions
12 3/4 x 15 in. (32.4 x 38.1 cm)Framed: 19 3/8 x 21 1/8 in. (49.2 x 53.7 cm)
Accession Number
2016.35.20.328
Credit
Gift of Gloria and Selig Kaplan
Biography
Jamasie began to draw in the early 1960s while living in an Inuit Camp on the coastline of southern Baffin Island. During that time, he concentrated primarily on the copper engraving technique, ferrying copper plates back and forth between his campsite and the co-operative in Cape Dorset. Many of his engravings, published in the 1960s and early 1970s, depicted the traditional Inuit camp and hunting activities. In the early 1980s, Jamasie … returned to drawing on paper, using graphite and coloured pencils, in addition to felt-tip pens. His drawings were executed in precise, simple and uncluttered lines. Jamasie was the father of Anirnik Ragee, Parnee Peter, Nicotai Simigak, and Simeonie Teevee, all Cape Dorset sculptors. Jamasie’s wife, Cape Dorset artist Angotigolu Teevee, died in 1967.
https://nativecanadianarts.com/artist/jamasie-teevee/
Date of Bio
Inscription
Playmates, Dorset, 16/50, 1970, Jamasie