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Osuitok Ipeelee was born on 23 October, 1923 in Neeouleeutalik Camp, Nunavut, Canada, is a Canadian artist (born). Discover Osuitok Ipeelee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 23 October 1923
Birthday 23 October
Birthplace Neeouleeutalik Camp, Nunavut, Canada
Date of death 2005
Died Place Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada
Nationality Canada

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1923

Osuitok Ipeelee (ᐅᓱᐃᑐ ᐃᐱᓕ, 23 September 1923 - 2005 ) was an Inuk sculptor who lived in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.

His sculptures in green soapstone of caribou and birds are particularly valued for their balance and delicacy.

He was an early collaborator with James Archibald Houston, and by Houston's account was instrumental in the conception of the West Baffin Island Eskimo Cooperative.

He was also one of the witnesses of the last-remembered traditional Inuit trial.

Ipeelee grew up in a traditional Inuit environment, learning to hunt and fish from his father, Ohotok Ipeelee, at a small camp near Cape Dorset.

Ohotok also taught his son how to carve ivory, and as early as the age of thirteen Osuitok began to sculpt.

This was encouraged by Roman Catholic missionaries, who bought carvings and commissioned small crucifixes from him.

1940

The artist's earliest extant works are ivory miniatures of hunting equipment, typical of the historic period of Inuit art, that date from the 1940s.

1951

Before Houston's 1951 expedition, Ipeelee was already regionally known as the greatest carver on Baffin Island.

Under Houston's influence he began to carve sculptures in soapstone, which had a reliable market in the south.

1952

Exhibits of Inuit art at the National Gallery of Canada in 1952 and 1955 included his work, crediting him as "Oshaweetuk B".

With recognition he began to receive official commissions.

1955

In 1955 he directed a team of craftsmen in the creation of the official mace for the Council of the Northwest Territories, and in 1959 he was asked to create a sculpture of Queen Elizabeth II, which was presented to the Queen upon her visit to Canada that year.

1957

The idea of a Cape Dorset printmaking program developed from a winter 1957 conversation between Houston and Ipeelee.

As Houston recalled:

Osuitok Ipeelee sat near Me One evening studying the sailor-head trademarks on a number of identical cigarette packages.

He...stated that it must have been very tiresome...to sit painting every one of the small heads on the small packages with the exact sameness...

My explanation was far from successful...partly because I was starting to wonder whether this could have any practical application in Inuit terms.

Looking around to find some way to demonstrate printing, I saw an ivory walrus tusk that Osuitok had recently engraved...

Taking an old tin of writing ink... with my finger I dipped into the black residue and smoothed it over the tusk.

I laid a piece of toilet paper on the inked surface and rubbed the top lightly, then quickly stripped the paper from the tusk.

I saw that by mere good fortune, I had pulled a fairly good negative of Osuitok's incised design.

"We could do that," he said, with the instant decisiveness of a hunter.

And so we did.

1958

Despite this, Ipeelee only contributed a total of four prints to the annual print collections, two in 1958 and two in 1959.

He never returned to the medium explaining that he had not been paid enough for the drawings on which the prints were based, and found sculpture to be more profitable.