Hunting Birds

 

Rex Kangoak Goose

  1965 - PRESENT (biography)

1982  

color lithograph 

12 x 16 1/2" image size 

pencil, lower center-left 

18 of 50  

pencil titled, dated, editioned, and annotated "Holman" (re: Holman Collection), lower left; publisher's chop and unidentifed "QLbD" chop in lower right; annotated "16-82" in pencil, verso 

Inuit Art Foundation accession no.: DIAND 2019-001:01380 

Arches White wove 

published 

Ulukhaktok (Holman) Collection (chop in lower right) 

24705 

$400.00 

An image of an Inuit hunter lying in wait for his prey, blue mountains in the background. Rex Kangoak Goose was one of the early artists trained at the Ulukhaktuk Arts Centre in Ulukhaktuk, Northern Territories, Canada. At that time the town and center were called Holman, and one of the chops in the image bears the shape of the ulu, a traditional semi-circular iron blade with a wooden handle, surrounding the word "HOLMAN".

Goose's father and grandmother, Bill Goose and Agnes Nanogak, were both respected artists in their own right and encouraged young Rex to pursue visual arts. He is known for his carved miniatures of Inuit people and culture, animals, and other representations of life in the Arctic.