Little Circle

Date1973

Maker Jessie Oonark Canadian, 1960 - 1985

Label TextOonark is hailed as one of the greatest artists to have come from the Baker Lake artistic co-operative. Spending the first fifty years of her life within Utkusiksalingmiut camps near the Haningayok (Back River) region, she spent much of her creative talents processing and sewing caribou and sealskin to produce clothing. Much of this early sewing work of Oonark’s informed how she would approach the printmaking medium. The isolated and fragmented forms in her pieces, come together to form bold imagery of Inuit life.

Object number2003.133

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Indigenous Matrix: Northwest Women Printmakers, June 15 - Dec. 11, 2022.

Credit LineGift of the John Henry Hauberg Family

Dimensions9 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (23.8 x 25.7cm)

MediumStonecut print