Pudlo Pudlat, New Forms in Our Path
Pudlo Pudlat
1916-1992
Inuit/Kinngait (Cape Dorset)
Date
1986
Medium Specific
Stonecut
Edition / State
49/50
Classification
Print
Dimensions
24 x 31 in. (61 x 78.7 cm)
Accession Number
2019.35.20.75
Credit
Gift of Gloria and Selig Kaplan
Memo / Artist Statement
Landscape is a recurring motif in Pudlo's work as a background for other images and as a subject in its own right. "Pudlo: Thirty Years of Drawing" quotes: Now in my drawings I draw land because everybody in this world sees land every time they get up. I really love making landscapes - the sky and everything. I like the scenery and I really love to draw it." He began drawing in the early 1960s at the request of James Houston.
Biography
Pudlo Pudlat’s (1916-1992) works blend tradition with modern technology, depicting a wide variety of subjects such as helicopters, new technology and scenes of everyday life. Pudlat began as a sculptor, and eventually took up acrylics and coloured pencils. In 1978, Pudlat’s print Aeroplane (c. 1973) was reproduced on a Canadian postage stamp. Between 1990 and 1991, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, ON showcased his work in the retrospective, Pudlo: Thirty Years of Drawing. Many of his works are still held in the collection of National Gallery today, as well as many other institutions in Vancouver, BC, Toronto, ON and Montreal, QC.
https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/iad/artist/Pudlo-Pudlat
https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/iad/artist/Pudlo-Pudlat
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