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| Born | 1893 Southern Baffin Island, near Cape Dorset |
| Died | November 3, 1969 (aged 75–76) |
| Spouse | Eleeshushe Parr |
Parr (1893 - 3 November 1969) was an Inuk artist. He lived a traditional Inuit lifestyle until 1961, when he settled in Cape Dorset because of declining health and a hunting accident. [1]
Parr was born in 1893 on Southern Baffin Island, near Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). The pair had a total of nine children, including several artists. [2] His wife, Eleeshushe Parr, was also an Inuk artist. [3]
In Cape Dorset, Parr began to draw and make stonecut relief prints. He created over 2,000 works in the next eight years. These are mainly images of hunting scenes, although Shamanic subjects are also depicted. In 1977 one of his prints was featured on a Canadian postage stamp. [4] His drawings depict the shift in lifestyle between the semi-nomadic and the institutional. [5] Parr found creativity for drawings through the introduction of drawing and printmaking in the WBEC studios. [6]
His work is included in the permanent collections of several museums, including the National Gallery of Canada, [7] the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, [8] the University of Michigan Museum of Art, [9] [10] the Canadian Museum of History, [11] the Dennos Museum Center, [12] the National Museum of the American Indian, [13] [14] the British Museum, [15] [16] and the Museum of Modern Art. [17]
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