In the late 1950s, Chauncey C. Nash started collecting Inuit
carvings just as the art of printmaking was being introduced in
Kinngait (Cape Dorset), an Inuit community on Baffin Island in the
Canadian territory of Nunavut. Nash donated some 300 prints and
sculptures to Harvard s Peabody Museum one of the oldest
collections of early modern Inuit art. The Peabody collection
includes not only early Inuit sculpture but also many of the
earliest prints on paper made by the women and men who helped
propel Inuit art onto the world stage.
Author Maija M. Lutz draws from ethnology, archaeology, art
history, and cultural studies to tell the story of a little-known
collection that represents one of the most vibrant and experimental
periods in the development of contemporary Inuit art. Lavishly
illustrated, "Hunters, Carvers, and Collectors" presents numerous
never-before-published gems, including carvings by the artists John
Kavik, Johnniebo Ashevak, and Peter Qumalu POV Assappa. This latest
contribution to the award-winning Peabody Museum Collections Series
fills an important gap in the literature of Native American
art."
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