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Luke Anguhadluq, ᓗᐅᒃ ᐊᒐᓴᓗ

Settlement: Baker Lake / Qamani’tuaq

(1895-1982) — E2-294

Alternative Names: Anguhadluq Anguhadluq, Luke Anguhadluq, Angosaglo Anguhadluq, Anglosaglo Anguhadluq, Anguhalluq Anguhadluq, Luq Anguhadluq

Luke Anguhadluq spent much of his life as a camp leader in the Back River area (Chantrey Inlet) north of Baker Lake, living the traditional way of life on the land. In the early 1960s, he settled in the community of Baker Lake with his wife, Marion Tuu'luq, who later became a prominent tapestry and graphic artist. Luke began drawing in 1968 at the age of 73, and participated in the printing program in Baker Lake since it began in 1969.

"From the beginning Anguhadluq seemed to have established his particular subject interests and his own way of conveying them from the three- dimensional world to two-dimensional paper. Economic of means, he suggested and abbreviated forms rather than extensively articulating them; he let the empty white areas of his paper work for him, never fearing to leave areas undisturbed (although conversely, he might completely fill the page with images or a background). He repeated forms or distorted them for realistic and visual effects, and he adjusted his perspective system to meet particular needs within his scene."*

Although Anguhadluq was known as a skillful hunter when he lived on the land, in the community of Baker Lake he was known for his skillful drawings depicting subject matter such as drum dances or hunters in kayaks and caribou. Many of Anguhadluq's drawings were used to make prints. His sons, Thomas Iksiraq (1941 -) and Barnabus Oosuaq (1940-) who are both printers in Baker Lake, often made the prints of their father's original drawings.

Anguhadluq died at the age of 87. The eternal hunter, Anguhadluq was buried on one of his favourite hills out on the land, where he used to watch for caribou. His casket was brought to this site by dogsled, as per his final request. 

* Jean Blodgett, "Grasp Tight The Old Ways: Selections From the Klamer Family 
Collection of Inuit Art", Toronto: The Art Gallery Gallery, 1983, page 38


Exhibitions

  • A Culture on Paper: Baker Lake Drawings, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
  • Alaska Eskimo Dolls/Inuit Prints, Provincial Museum of Alberta, sponsored by the Alaska State Council on the Arts
  • Angohadluq and Esa - Drawings, Artemus
  • Anguhadluq - Prints and Drawings in Retrospect 1970-1978, Gallery One
  • Anguhadluq/Tuu'luq: Husband and Wife of Baker Lake, The Upstairs Gallery
  • Arctic Mirror, Canadian Museum of Civilization
  • Arctic Spirit 35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art, Frye Art Museum
  • Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Canadian Arctic Producers
  • Baker Lake - Uncatalogued Prints 1979-1985 A retrospective collection exhibited at selected galleries, organized by, Canadian Arctic Producers
  • Baker Lake Drawings, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • Baker Lake Drawings, The Upstairs Gallery
  • Baker Lake Drawings, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
  • Baker Lake Drawings, The Upstairs Gallery
  • Baker Lake Eskimo Drawings - Six Artists, The Upstairs Gallery
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *70, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *71, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *72, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *73, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *74, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *75, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *76, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *77, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *78, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *79, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *80, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *81, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Collection *82, (annual collection)
  • Baker Lake Print Retrospective: A Twenty Year Anniversary, The Upstairs Gallery
  • Baker Lake Prints & Print-Drawings: 1970-1976, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • Baker Lake Prints - Ten Year Retrospective, The Upstairs Gallery
  • Baker Lake Prints 1985, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
  • Baker Lake Prints and Drawings: 1970-1973, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Extension Services
  • Baker Lake Prints and Print Drawings, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • Baker Lake Prints: 1970 - 1982 Retrospective, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
  • Baker Lake: Persistence of Old Memories, Brandon Allied Arts Council
  • Canadian Inuit Art, Sponsored by Canadian Arctic Producers at City Hall
  • 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 Art, National Gallery of Canada
  • Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
  • Contemporary Inuit Drawings, Muscarelle Museum of Art College of William and Mary
  • Die Kunst aus der Arktis, Inuit Galerie, Mannheim held at Humanities and Social Sciences Research Institute, University of Siegen at Villa Waldrich
  • Drawings by Anglosaglo, Fleet Gallery
  • Drawings by Anglosaglo of Baker Lake, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
  • Drawings by Anguhadluk, Annaqtussi, Kigusiuq, Kukiiyaut of Baker Lake, N.W.T., Robertson Galleries
  • Drawings from Baker Lake, The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
  • Each Depends on the Other, Houston North Gallery
  • Eskimo Art, Queens Museum
  • Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/ Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture, National Gallery of Modern Art
  • Eskimo Narrative, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • From the Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Gjoa Haven Sculpture/Wallhangings, Atlantic Galleries
  • Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art, Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Hunter of the Sacred Game: Traditional Life on the Land, Organized by the Arts and Learning Services Foundation
  • Hunters of Old, Inukshuk Galleries Inc.
  • I Am Always Thinking About the Animals, Houston North Gallery
  • Im Schatten der Sonne: Zeitgenossische Kunst der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art in Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization
  • Immaginario Inuit Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
  • Inuit Art From the Glenbow Collection, Glenbow Museum
  • Inuit Art in the 1970s, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre
  • 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 Art: Drawings and Recent Sculpture, National Gallery of Canada
  • Inuit Drawings, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
  • 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 Past, Arctic Artistry
  • Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare Prints from the Arctic, Arctic Artistry
  • Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
  • Inuit Masterworks: Selections from the Collection of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, McMichael Canadian Collection
  • Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987, Arctic Artistry
  • Inuit Woman: Life and Legend in Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • Luke Anguhadluq - Prints and Drawings, Gallery Moos
  • Luke Anguhadluq: Baker Lake Prints and Drawings 1970-1982, The Upstairs Gallery
  • Moving Around the Form: Inuit Sculpture and Prints, Agnes Etherington Art Centre Queen's University
  • Multiple Perspectives from Baker Lake, University of Michigan Alumni Centre
  • Noel au Chateau - Art inuit de la collection Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Guelph, Ontario presented at Chateau Dufresne
  • Northern Exposure: Inuit Images of Travel, Burnaby Art Gallery
  • On the Land, The Arctic Circle
  • Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics, Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
  • Print Retrospective:1972-1982, The Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
  • Prints by Luke Anguhadluq, Isaacs/Innuit Gallery
  • Prints/Drawings by Parr of Cape Dorset and Anglosaglo of Baker Lake, Hugh Moss Gallery
  • Qamanittuaq: The Art of Baker Lake, National Gallery of Canada
  • Qamanittuaq: Where the River Widens Drawings by Baker Lake Artists, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
  • Qiviuq: A Legend in Art, Carleton University Art Gallery
  • Small Sculptures from across the Canadian Arctic, Feheley Fine Arts
  • Sojourns to Nunavut: Contemporary Inuit Art from Canada, at Bunkamura Art Gallery, presented by the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology and The McMichael Canadian Art Collection
  • Spirits and Dreams - Arts of the Inuit of Baker Lake, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
  • Spoken in Stone: an exhibition of Inuit Art, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
  • Stones, Bones, Cloth, and Paper: Inuit Art in Edmonton Collections, Edmonton Art Gallery
  • The Arctic/L'Artique, UNESCO
  • The Bond Between Mother and Child, The Arctic Circle
  • The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • The Drummer Stopped the Drumbeat, Houston North Gallery
  • The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood To Be Full, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the National Museum of Man
  • The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario, University of Guelph
  • The Oral Tradition, National Museum of Man
  • The People Within - Art from Baker Lake, Art Gallery of Ontario
  • The Swinton Collection of Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • The World Around Me, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
  • The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • Three Artists from Baker Lake, Mazelow Gallery
  • Tuu'luq/Anguhadluq, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions des Animaux, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in cooperation with the Department of External Affairs
  • Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection of Inuit Art, Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
  • Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection of Inuit Art, Canadian Guild of Craft Quebec

Collections

  • Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston
  • Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth
  • Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria
  • Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
  • Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor
  • Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
  • 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
  • Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
  • Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
  • Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
  • McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton
  • McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
  • Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
  • 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
  • Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton
  • University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff
  • Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg

Artwork

Title Last Sold At Auction
FRIENDLY GREETING 2007-11 (November 2007)
MERMAID 2007-11 (November 2007)
A MAN AND HIS SON BRING THE CARIBOU ON HIS KAYAK 2018-05 (May 2018)
A MAN WITH HORNS 2011-05 (May 2011)
A TIME FOR CELEBRATION 2010-06 (June 2010)
ANGAGUK 2007-04 (April 2007)
ANIMALS 2009-11 (November 2009)
APRIL CARIBOU 2014-11 (November 2014)
ARCHER & CARIBOU 2007-11 (November 2007)
ARCHER AND CARIBOU 2022-03 (March 2022)
BEAR CATCHES SEAL 2015-11 (November 2015)
CALLING THE ANIMALS TOGETHER 2019-11 (November 2019)
CARIBOU 2022-03 (March 2022)
CARIBOU GRAZING 2013-05 (May 2013)
DOGS 2013-05 (May 2013)
DRUM DANCE 2021-12 (December 2021)
DRUM DANCING 2011-05 (May 2011)
FAMILY 2019-09 (September 2019)
FAMILY FISHING 2021-12 (December 2021)
FATHER AND BROTHER GOING HUNTING 2020-10 (October 2020)
FISHERMAN AND HUNTER 2009-11 (November 2009)
FISHERMAN AND THE WIDOW 2015-01 (January 2015)
FISHING 2020-08 (August 2020)
FISHING CAMP 2022-03 (March 2022)
FOUR FISHERMAN 2009-11 (November 2009)
FOUR FISHERMEN 2012-04 (April 2012)
GEESE IN FLIGHT 2011-05 (May 2011)
GRANDMOTHER WITH ULU 2017-10 (October 2017)
HOOKS AND SPEARS 2021-05 (May 2021)
HUNTER AND HIS KAYAK 2021-06 (June 2021)
HUNTER CARRYING KAKIVAK 2015-11 (November 2015)
HUNTERS RETURNING HOME 2017-08 (August 2017)
HUNTING CARIBOU FROM KAYAKS 2021-12 (December 2021)
INNAKATSIK, ANGUHADLUQ, KAVIK 2007-04 (April 2007)
KAYAK 2008-11 (November 2008)
KAYAK AND CARIBOU 2021-12 (December 2021)
MAN AND THE LAND 2019-11 (November 2019)
MAN AND WIFE 2009-04 (April 2009)
MANY FACES 2021-12 (December 2021)
MANY RABBITS 2011-05 (May 2011)
MERMAID 2013-02 (February 2013)
MUSK OX 2013-11 (November 2013)
MUSK OXEN 2021-12 (December 2021)
MUSK OXEN GRAZING 2012-11 (November 2012)
MUSK-OX EATING GRASS 2019-11 (November 2019)
MUSKOX 2021-05 (May 2021)
NUKATUGA 2011-03 (March 2011)
OLD CARIBOU HUNTER 2025-07 (July 2025)
OLD CARIBOU HUNTERS 2011-05 (May 2011)
OLD INNUIT COUPLE 2019-12 (December 2019)
OLD INUIT COUPLE 2011-11 (November 2011)
OLD MAN WALKING 2021-10 (October 2021)
OLD WOMAN 2021-06 (June 2021)
ON THE LAND 2011-05 (May 2011)
PURSUING CARIBOU BY KAYAK 2018-05 (May 2018)
QIVIUQ CROSSING OCEAN 2010-06 (June 2010)
QIVIUQ CROSSING THE OCEAN 2021-10 (October 2021)
QIVIUQ CROSSING THE RIVER 2014-11 (November 2014)
SEPTEMBER CARIBOU 2008-10 (October 2008)
SHAMAN ENTERING THE DRUM DANCE 2013-05 (May 2013)
SMALL ANIMALS 2009-11 (November 2009)
SMALL MAN 2009-11 (November 2009)
SOME TRIBES OF INUIT 2021-06 (June 2021)
STRING GAME 2021-03 (March 2021)
SUNWOMAN 2021-05 (May 2021)
SWIMMING CARIBOU 2022-10 (October 2022)
TETHERED DOGS 2014-01 (January 2014)
THE CARIBOU HUNT 2017-08 (August 2017)
THE DRUMMER STOPPED THE DRUM BEAT 2014-06 (June 2014)
THE FISHERMAN 2007-04 (April 2007)
THE MEN HUNTING CARIBOU IN KAYAKS 2014-11 (November 2014)
THE RETURN 2021-02 (February 2021)
THE TWO WOLVES FOLLOWING THE CARIBOU MIGRATION 2018-05 (May 2018)
THE YOUNG AND THE OLD 2009-11 (November 2009)
THREE FISHES 2010-12 (December 2010)
TRAVELLING BY FOOT 2021-10 (October 2021)
TWO FIGURES 2018-11 (November 2018)
TWO WOLVES FOLLOWING THE CARIBOU MIGRATION 2017-11 (November 2017)
UNITITLED 2007-11 (November 2007)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-09 (September 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-09 (September 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-09 (September 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2021-05 (May 2021)
UNTITLED 2019-09 (September 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2007-04 (April 2007)
UNTITLED 2015-06 (June 2015)
UNTITLED 2019-09 (September 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-09 (September 2019)
UNTITLED 2021-05 (May 2021)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2021-05 (May 2021)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2021-05 (May 2021)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-09 (September 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-09 (September 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-09 (September 2019)
UNTITLED 2007-11 (November 2007)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2021-05 (May 2021)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED 2019-11 (November 2019)
UNTITLED (A FISH) 2009-11 (November 2009)
UNTITLED (CARIBOU HUNT) 2019-05 (May 2019)
UNTITLED (HUNGRY POLAR BEAR) 2015-06 (June 2015)
UNTITLED (MOTHER AND CHILD) 2015-06 (June 2015)
WHITE CARIBOU 2009-04 (April 2009)
WHITE CARIBOU, 1981 2023-06 (June 2023)
WOMAN 2018-05 (May 2018)
YOUNG HUNTER 2011-03 (March 2011)
YOUNG HUNTER, 2007-11 (November 2007)

Recent Auction Results

OLD CARIBOU HUNTER
Estimate: 200 — 300
Sold: Jul 2025 — Sold For: $275
WHITE CARIBOU, 1981
Estimate: 1,000 — 1,500
Sold: Jun 2023 — Sold For: $615
SWIMMING CARIBOU
Estimate: 1,000 — 1,500
Sold: Oct 2022 — Sold For: $1,080
CARIBOU
Estimate: 400 — 600
Sold: Mar 2022 — Sold For: $660
FISHING CAMP
Estimate: 1,000 — 1,500
Sold: Mar 2022 — Sold For: $2,040
ARCHER AND CARIBOU
Estimate: 400 — 600
Sold: Mar 2022 — Sold For: $660

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