Parr (artist)

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Parr (1893 - 3 November 1969) was an Inuit artist. He lived a traditional Inuit lifestyle until 1961, when he settled in Cape Dorset because of declining health and a hunting accident. [1]

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Biography

Parr was born in 1893 on Southern Baffin Island, near Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). He had two sons, Nuna Parr [2] and Peter Parr, who are also artists. His wife, Eleeshushe Parr, was also an Inuit artist. [3]

Work

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 work is included in the permanent collections of several museums, including the National Gallery of Canada, [5] the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, [6] the University of Michigan Museum of Art, [7] [8] the Canadian Museum of History, [9] the Dennos Museum Center, [10] the National Museum of the American Indian, [11] [12] the British Museum, [13] [14] and the Museum of Modern Art. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "Artists at the Narwhal Inuit Art Gallery, London". www.narwhalgallery.com.
  2. ↑ Foundation, Inuit Art. "Nuna Parr - Inuit Art Foundation - Artist Database". iad.inuitartfoundation.org.
  3. ↑ "Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Artist Database : Artists : PARR, Eleeshushe". cwahi.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  4. ↑ Biography on the website of the Centre for Canadian Contemporary Art (In Inuktitut, click at bottom of text for English translation)
  5. ↑ "Parr". www.gallery.ca.
  6. ↑ "Parr". www.collections.mnbaq.org.
  7. ↑ "Exchange: Men and Walrus". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  8. ↑ "Exchange: Blue Geese Feeding". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  9. ↑ "Search the Collections | Canadian Museum of History". www.historymuseum.ca (in American English). Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  10. ↑ "Cultural Reflections: Inuit Art from the Collection of the Dennos Museum Center". tfaoi.org. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  11. ↑ "Geese, Dog and Walrus | National Museum of the American Indian". americanindian.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  12. ↑ "Drawing | National Museum of the American Indian". americanindian.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  13. ↑ "drawing | British Museum". The British Museum. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  14. ↑ "print | British Museum". The British Museum. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  15. ↑ "Parr. Geese, Man and Animals. 1963 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-02-03.


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