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5 1/2" by 5 1/4" by 3 3/4". Provenance: Heard Museum, Arizona; Private Collection, New York. Nuveeya Ipellie (1920 - 2010) was active/lived in Nunavut / Canada. Nuveeya Ipellie is known for Inuit sculpture, carver, jewelry maker. An important Canadian Inuit sculptor, carver and jewelry maker from Baffin Island, Nunavut, Nuveeya Ipellie (disc number E7-509) was born in Lake Harbor (now Kimmirut), lived in Pangnirtung and Cape Dorset (now Kinngait), and settled in Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay) in 1945 where he appears to have lived for the rest of his life. Ipellie's works have been exhibited widely in Canada and the U.S.A. and featured in numerous museum exhibitions. His works are in many major museum collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Canadian Museum of History. (3)(4) His primary mediums were stone, whalebone, marine ivory, antler, and mixed mediums. His subjects included figures, Inuit genre, legends, mythology, humor, spirituality, surrealism, and arctic wildlife; especially the musk-ox. His style would be described as Inuit Art. He signed his work with his initials "N.I." and occasionally in syllabics. The askART auction results have many excellent illustrations of his work. (5) His only noted teacher is his father Ennutsiak (see askART), who was also an important Inuit sculptor. Ipellie's works have been featured in many landmark exhibitions of Inuit art such as "Sculpture from Frobisher Bay" at the Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal (1975); "Inuit Art in the 1970's" at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario (1979); "The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art" at the University of Guelph, Ontario (1980); "The Inuit Sea Goddess" at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and touring (1980); "Grasp Tight the Old Ways" at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1983); "Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada" at the United Nations Building, New York City (1983 – 1985); "Canadian Inuit Art" at City Hall Nuuk/Godthab, Greenland (1984); "Tundra & Ice: Stone Images of Animals and Man" presented by Orca Aart at the Adventurers' Club, Chicago, Illinois (1988); "Arctic Mirror" at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec (1990); "The First Passionate Collector: The Ian Lindsay Collection of Inuit Art" at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba (1991); "Multiple Realities: Inuit Images of Shamanic Transformation" at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba (1993); "On Collectors and Collecting: Selections from the Herb & Cece Schreiber Family Collection" at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario (1994); and, "The Harry Winrob Collection of Inuit Sculpture" at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba (2008). His works have also been shown in solo and group exhibitions at prominent commercial galleries such as Mazelow Gallery, Toronto; The Innuit [sic] Gallery of Eskimo Art, Toronto; The Koffler Gallery, Toronto; Isaacs/Innuit [sic] Gallery, Toronto; Waddington Galleries, Toronto; Galerie D'Art Vincent, Ottawa; Beckett Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario; Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Ste-Foy, Quebec; Webster Galleries, Calgary, Alberta; Canadiana Galleries; Edmonton, Alberta; Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, B.C.; Images for a Canadian Heritage, Vancouver; Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver; Gallery of the Arctic, Victoria, B.C.; Arctic Artistry, Hartsdale and Hastings-on-Hudson, New York; Arctic Inuit Art, Richmond, Virginia; Orca Aart, Chicago; Windmill Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona; Snow Goose Associates, Seattle; Inuk 1, San Francisco; Images of the North, San Francisco; The Arctic Circle, Los Angeles; Embankment Gallery, London, England; and, Galerie Saint Merri, Paris, France. According to the Canadian Heritage Information Network and individual museum sources, his works are in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Guelph [formerly Macdonald Stewart Art Centre which housed the University of Guelph Art Collection] (Guelph, Ontario), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa, Ontario), Canadian Museum of History (Gatineau, Quebec), Itsanitaq Museum [formerly Eskimo Museum] (Churchill, Manitoba), Museum of Anthropology (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Penn Museum (Philadelphia), Quebec Museum of Fine Arts (Quebec City), University of Lethbridge Art Gallery (Lethbridge, Alberta), Winnipeg Art Gallery* (Manitoba) and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). (6) (1) Researchers please note: The Getty Union List of Artist Names has his last name as Nuveeya so it reads: Ipellie Nuveeya. They are the only source for this reverse first/last name arrangement. (2) Researchers please note: According to our sources there are three alternate spellings of this artist's first and last names, they are: Nooveya Ippelie, Nouveya Ipeelee, and Nouveeya Ipeelie. However, most of our sources use Nuveeya Ipellie. Where a source uses a different spelling it is noted. – M.D. Silverbrooke (3) Please note: All of the towns mentioned are on Baffin Island. – M.D. Silverbrooke (4) Researchers please note: Nuveeya is part of a family of prominent artists: Ennutsiak (see askART) was his father, Seepee Ipellie (see askART) was his son, Jomie Aipeelee (see askART) is his grandson, and Alootook Ipellie, a well-known writer and graphic artist, is his nephew. Sources: Inuit. Net and "Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum" (see sources below). – M.D. Silverbrooke (5) Collectors please note: Ipellie's most popular subject the musk-ox was probably suggested to him by an art dealer, who provided photos of the animal, since it is unlikely that Ipellie had ever seen a musk-ox in real life because musk-ox do not inhabit Baffin Island. In the Canadian Arctic, muskoxen inhabit most large islands except Baffin Island… Source: There are many sources for the musk-ox habitat and they all agree that they do not inhabit Baffin Island; but, the quote is from the National Geographic website. (6) Researchers please note: Our sources include three more museum collectors of Ipellie's works: The Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan; the Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Nunavut; and McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario; however, unlike all of the museums on our list above these could not be confirmed online through the Canadian Heritage Information Network, or at the specific museum’s website, or in a publication listing the museum’s collection. Never the less we do not necessarily doubt that his works may currently be in these collections or have been in these collections. – M.D. Silverbrooke
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