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Provenance:

Private Collection, Connecticut

Note:

Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok began carving in the mid 1960s. Her earliest works were on a small scale, but possess an outsized monumentality. Like fellow Arviat artist and friend, John Pangnark, Tasseor possessed a gift for abstraction and for developing the inherent shapes and surfaces naturally formed in stone. Both artists' sensibilities were well suited to the hard, unyielding material found in Arviat.

While large compositions by Tasseor are uncommon, working on a more expansive scale allowed her to develop her aesthetic to its fullest. The faces in the present sculpture have found purchase in the most precarious outcroppings of the rock, and emphasize the dynamic shape of the stone whose surface is everywhere abraded with the fine scattershot lines of her hand tools.

Tasseor's large works have been the subject of much interest from institutions and private collectors. Of the known, closely-related works, one is held in the collections of the Canadian Museum of History, and a second is documented in Norman Zepp’s Pure Vision: The Keewatin Spirit. We are pleased to offer this exceptional example.

Related Works:
Norman Zepp, Pure Vision: The Keewatin Spirit, (Regina: Merit Printing Ltd., 1986), 95, pl. 41
Canadian Museum of History, Faces Emerging From Stone