Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration

Saturday, October 15, 3-5pm

Owl, Fox and Hare Legend, 1959, Osuitok Ipeelee, Printed by the artist, with James Houston, Stencil, CMC, CD 1959-021 SS © IMG2010-0207-0037-Dm Photo: Marie-Louise Deruaz

This exhibition features exquisite and extraordinarily rare prints from Japan and Cape Dorset, Nunavut, from the late 1950s and early 1960s. It also tells the little-known story of how, fifty years ago, the Canadian artist and “discoverer” of Inuit art, James Houston, travelled to Japan to study printmaking with Un’ichi Hiratsuka.

Exhibition organized by the Canadian Museum of Civilization with the assistance of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset.

Artist Talk by Taiga Chiba from 2pm before the opening reception.