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Peter Aliknak

Settlement: Holman / Ulukhaktok

(1928) — W2-494

only year of death is known Peter Aliknak Born: 1928 Birthplace: Baillie Island Resides: Holman Male Drawing, Prints, Printmaking, Sculpture Sometimes known as Alex, Peter began as a carver but has become even more well known as a graphic artist.ÊÊHe has been a consistent contributor to the annual Holman print collection since the late 1960's.ÊÊHis sister Agnes Nanogak is also an accomplished print artist in Holman. Peter's work is a part of the collections of many major institutions including the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, the Glenbow Museum, the Sissons Collection, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, as well as the collections of many other museums and universities.ÊÊ ----------------------- Banksland, Alec Aliknak 1928-1998 http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Holman/english/artists/index.php3#c1 Alec Aliknak Banksland was born on Baillie Island, near Tuktoyaktuk, to Natkutsiak (Billy Banksland) and Topsy Ekiona. His sister is artist Agnes Nanogak Goose (1925-2001). In his youth, his family migrated between Baillie Island and Banks Island. They moved to the Holman area about 1934 Ñ one of the first families to do so. He married Elizabeth Putuitok, who lived in the area, and they later had eight children. Putuitok learned English during the five years she spent at Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton, where she was being treated for tuberculosis. Her skills as a translator enabled her to help Aliknak sell his carvings to visitors during the 1950s. Aliknak's drawings are meticulously detailed interpretations of traditional life, and his felt tip pen drawings are fully coloured in a painterly fashion. He worked at home and was not involved with the technical aspects of printmaking. From an interview with Aliknak's wife, Elizabeth Banksland, by Darlene Coward Wight, Holman, May 12, 2000

Exhibitions

  • Alaska Eskimo Dolls/Inuit Prints, Provincial Museum of Alberta, sponsored by the Alaska State Council on the Arts
  • Arctic Mirror, Canadian Museum of Civilization
  • Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Canadian Arctic Producers
  • Canadian/Indian and Eskimo Arts and Crafts, The Snow Goose
  • Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, presented at the General Assembly Building, United Nations
  • Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary
  • Die Kunst aus der Arktis, Inuit Galerie, Mannheim held at the Niedersaechsisches Landesmuseum
  • Eskimo Art, Queens Museum
  • Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/ Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture, National Gallery of Modern Art
  • Eskimo Sculpture, Eskimo Prints and Paintings of Norval Morrisseau, Art Association of Newport
  • Exhibition of Inuit Art, Wellington County Museum and Archives organized by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
  • Holman Prints *67, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *68, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *69, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *72, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *73, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *74, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *75/76, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *77, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *79, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *80/81, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *83, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *84, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *85, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *86, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *87, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *88, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *89, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *90, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *91, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *92, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *93, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints *94, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints (printmaker) *69, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints (printmaker) *70, (annual collection)
  • Holman Prints (printmaker) *72, (annual collection)
  • Inuit Art From the Glenbow Collection, Glenbow Museum
  • Inuit Art on the Mezzanine: New Acquisitions, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada, National Museum of Man, Ottawa and Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd.
  • Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E. Lee Collection of Prints, University of Alberta
  • Inuit Games/Inuit Pinguangit/Jeux des inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
  • Inuit Graphic Art from Indian & Northern Affairs Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990, Arctic Artistry
  • Inuit Graphics from the Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
  • Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare Prints from the Arctic, Arctic Artistry
  • Inuit Images in Transition, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts
  • Northern Exposure: Inuit Images of Travel, Burnaby Art Gallery
  • Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics, Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
  • The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • The Holman Eskimo Co-operatives 20th Anniversary Print Collection, Gallery of the Arctic
  • The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man
  • The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher Collection of Inuit Art, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina
  • The Moveable Feast, Arts and Learning Services Foundation
  • The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit Print Collection, Beaverbrook Art Gallery
  • The Prints Never Seen: Holman, 1977-1987, Albers Gallery of Inuit Art
  • The Story Tellers of Holman Island: A retrospective exhibition of rare stonecut prints from 1968 - 1979, The Arctic Circle
  • The Way We Were - Traditional Eskimo Life, Snow Goose Associates
  • Visions of Rare Spirit: 20 Years of Holman Prints, Port Colborne Library

Collections

  • Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston
  • Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth
  • Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage
  • Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton
  • Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal
  • Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull
  • Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton
  • Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City
  • Glenbow Museum, Calgary
  • Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet
  • Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher Collection,
  • Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
  • Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury
  • McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
  • McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
  • Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
  • Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal
  • Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
  • Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife
  • Sissons Collection, Yellowknife
  • Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton
  • University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
  • Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg

Publications

  • ABORIGINAL EMPOWERMENT AND SOUVENIR TRADE IN CANADA, Author: Blundell, Valda, Publication: Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 20, pp. 64-87 (1993)

Exhibitions

Alaska Eskimo Dolls/Inuit Prints

Provincial Museum of Alberta, sponsored by the Alaska State Council on the Arts


Arctic Mirror

Canadian Museum of Civilization


Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit

Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Canadian Arctic Producers


Canadian/Indian and Eskimo Arts and Crafts

The Snow Goose


Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada

Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa, presented at the General Assembly Building, United Nations


Contemporary Inuit Drawings

Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary


Die Kunst aus der Arktis

Inuit Galerie, Mannheim held at the Niedersaechsisches Landesmuseum


Eskimo Art

Queens Museum


Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/ Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture

National Gallery of Modern Art


Eskimo Sculpture, Eskimo Prints and Paintings of Norval Morrisseau

Art Association of Newport


Exhibition of Inuit Art

Wellington County Museum and Archives organized by the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph


Holman Prints *67

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *68

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *69

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *72

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *73

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *74

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *75/76

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *77

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *79

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *80/81

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *83

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *84

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *85

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *86

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *87

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *88

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *89

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *90

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *91

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *92

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *93

(annual collection)


Holman Prints *94

(annual collection)


Holman Prints (printmaker) *69

(annual collection)


Holman Prints (printmaker) *70

(annual collection)


Holman Prints (printmaker) *72

(annual collection)


Inuit Art From the Glenbow Collection

Glenbow Museum


Inuit Art on the Mezzanine: New Acquisitions

Winnipeg Art Gallery


Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada

National Museum of Man, Ottawa and Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd.


Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E. Lee Collection of Prints

University of Alberta


Inuit Games/Inuit Pinguangit/Jeux des inuit

Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development


Inuit Graphic Art from Indian & Northern Affairs Canada

Winnipeg Art Gallery


Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990

Arctic Artistry


Inuit Graphics from the Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal


Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare Prints from the Arctic

Arctic Artistry


Inuit Images in Transition

Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts


Northern Exposure: Inuit Images of Travel

Burnaby Art Gallery


Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics

Jerusalem Artists' House Museum


The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art

Winnipeg Art Gallery


The Holman Eskimo Co-operatives 20th Anniversary Print Collection

Gallery of the Arctic


The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit

Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man


The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher Collection of Inuit Art

Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina


The Moveable Feast

Arts and Learning Services Foundation


The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit Print Collection

Beaverbrook Art Gallery


The Prints Never Seen: Holman, 1977-1987

Albers Gallery of Inuit Art


The Story Tellers of Holman Island: A retrospective exhibition of rare stonecut prints from 1968 - 1979

The Arctic Circle


The Way We Were - Traditional Eskimo Life

Snow Goose Associates


Visions of Rare Spirit: 20 Years of Holman Prints

Port Colborne Library

Public Collections

Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University

Kingston


Amon Carter Museum of Western Art

Fort Worth


Anchorage Museum of History and Art

Anchorage


Beaverbrook Art Gallery

Fredericton


Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec

Montreal


Canadian Museum of Civilization

Hull


Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta

Edmonton


Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College

Traverse City


Glenbow Museum

Calgary


Inuit Cultural Institute

Rankin Inlet


Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher Collection


Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario

Toronto


Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre

Sudbury


McMaster University Art Gallery

Hamilton


McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Kleinburg


Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal

Montreal


Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal

Montreal


Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia

Vancouver


National Gallery of Canada

Ottawa


Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre

Yellowknife


Sissons Collection

Yellowknife


Smith College Museum of Art

Northampton


University of Alberta

Edmonton


University of New Brunswick

Fredericton


Winnipeg Art Gallery

Winnipeg

Publications

ABORIGINAL EMPOWERMENT AND SOUVENIR TRADE IN CANADA

Author: Blundell, Valda
Publication: Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 20, pp. 64-87 (1993)

Artwork

Title Last Sold At Auction
PREPARING DRY FISH 2007-06 (June 2007)
ALIGHTING CRANE 2017-03 (March 2017)
ANGIPLIPGAOYOT 2019-09 (September 2019)
AT THE STONE WEIR 2017-03 (March 2017)
CHILDREN PLAYING 2011-01 (January 2011)
CROWS DEFENDING THEIR NEST; CHILDREN DELIGHT 2013-09 (September 2013)
DIVIE FISH 2019-04 (April 2019)
EATING DRY FISH 2009-02 (February 2009)
GOOSE HUNTING 2019-04 (April 2019)
HAPPY HUNTER 2009-02 (February 2009)
INUIT SPEARING ARCTIC CHAR 2021-08 (August 2021)
KILLING AN OLD MAN 2022-09 (September 2022)
PREPARING CLORHING 2016-08 (August 2016)
SNAKE AND FISHES 2017-02 (February 2017)
SURPRISE IN THE WATER 2009-04 (April 2009)
THE FISH TRAP 2013-02 (February 2013)
TRAVELLERS 2010-05 (May 2010)
TRAVELLERS; JOLLY HUNTER 2016-03 (March 2016)
WEALTH 2011-01 (January 2011)
“TESTING THEIR STRENGTH” AND “NIGHT WINDS” 2018-02 (February 2018)

Recent Auction Results

KILLING AN OLD MAN
Estimate: 120 — 150
Sold: Sep 2022 — Sold For: $120
INUIT SPEARING ARCTIC CHAR
Estimate: 100 — 125
Sold: Aug 2021 — Sold For: $120
ANGIPLIPGAOYOT
Estimate: 200 — 400
Sold: Sep 2019 — Sold For: $192
GOOSE HUNTING
Estimate: 200 — 400
Sold: Apr 2019 — Sold For: $420
DIVIE FISH
Estimate: 200 — 400
Sold: Apr 2019 — Sold For: $480
“TESTING THEIR STRENGTH” AND “NIGHT WINDS”
Estimate: 100 — 125
Sold: Feb 2018 — Sold For: $108