Hunting Birds by Rex Kangoak Goose
Hunting Birds
Rex Kangoak Goose
Title
Hunting Birds
Artist
Rex Kangoak Goose
1965 - PRESENT (biography)Year
1982
Technique
color lithograph
Image Size
12 x 16 1/2" image size
Signature
pencil, lower center-left
Edition Size
18 of 50
Annotations
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
Reference
Inuit Art Foundation accession no.: DIAND 2019-001:01380
Paper
Arches White wove
State
published
Publisher
Ulukhaktok (Holman) Collection (chop in lower right)
Inventory ID
24705
Price
$400.00
Description
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.