Eskimo Drawings

Originally published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and co-curated by Suzi Jones and Walter Van Horn, "Eskimo Drawings" marks the first time that Alaska Eskimo artwork has been the exclusive subject of a major exhibition and publication. Accompanied by full-color illustrations, as well as black-and-white photographic reproductions, "Eskimo Drawings" features only a few works that have ever been exhibited previously while showcasing the work of previously undiscovered Eskimo artists. Covering topics as diverse as artistic considerations in the Eskimo graphic arts and an analysis of the work of Happy Jack and Guy Kakarook, this remarkable volume includes contributions by Susan W. Fair, Russell Hartman, Herbert O. Anungazuk, Steve Henrikson, Molly Lee, Mary Jane Anuqsraaq Melovidov, Patrick Minock, David Mollett, Dorothy Jean Ray, Susie Silook, Birgitte Sonne, and David P. Sweeney. Not to be missed by any art historian with an interest in Alaska Eskimo and Alaska Native art, this fascinating and fully illustrated collection is an unsurpassed survey of the field.


Contents:

Foreword
Patricia B. Wolf

Curators' Acknowledgments

Introduction
Suzi Jones

Editor's Note

Happy Jack and Guy Kakarook: Their Art and Their Heritage
Dorothy Jean Ray

Early Western Education, Reindeer Herding, and Inupiaq Drawing in Northwest Alaska: Wales, the Saniq Coast, and Shishmaref to Cape Espenberg
Susan W. Fair

Ootenna
Herbert O. Anungazuk

George Aden Ahgupuk, Inupiaq Eskimo Artist, 1911-2001
Rossell Hartman

Memories of My Grandfather: George "Twok" Aden Ahgupuk
David P. Sweeney

Betwixt and Between: The Art of James Kivetoruk Moses
Molly Lee

James Kivetoruk Moses
Mary Jane Anuqsraaq Melovidov

Robert Mayokok: Second-Generation Inupiaq Illustrator from Wales, Alaska
Susan W. Fair

The Artist Napaaq: 1906-1971
Susie Silook

Nunivak Drawings in the Knud Rasmussen Collection
Birgitte Sonne

"This makes us think of old time Eskimos": The Yup'ik Art of Milo Minock
Steve Henrikson

My Father Milo Minock
Patrick Minock

Rendering the Arctic: Artistic Considerations in the Eskimo Graphic Arts
David Mollett

Endnotes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index