Lot 57
Richard Harrington (1911-2005)
Lot 57 Details
Richard Harrington (1911-2005), German/Canadian
SPENCE BAY, NWT (MAN WITH WHITE ARCTIC FOX FURS, CA. 1950S (PRINTED CA. 1994)
selenium toned gelatin silver print
mounted to window mat; titled and dated verso; inscribed by the photographer: "An Eskimo in Arctic Canada displays bundles of Arctic fox pelts - most of which he has trapped himself / Spence Bay N.W.T 1952"; stamped: "Richard Harrington / Canada"
10 x 8 in — 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Estimate $1,000-$1,500
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Provenance:
Lorraine Monk, Toronto, ON;
By decent to present Private Collection, Toronto, ON
Note:
Richard Harrington was called Adderiorli by the Inuit which translates to “the man with a box.” Between 1948-1953 Harrington crossed more than 3,500 miles on six separate dogsled journeys documenting the Inuit way of life in the Canadian Arctic. It was on his fourth trip to the Arctic that he traveled to Padlei, a remote settlement about 200 kilometres north-west of Arviat. There he encountered the Padleimiut during a time of starvation when the caribou, their primary source of food, had not followed their usual migratory path. Harrington’s Padlei photographs would become the best known of his long career.
Harrington lived in Toronto for more than seventy years. He traveled to more than 120 countries. His work has appeared in Life Magazine, Look Magazine, National Geographic, Paris Match, Der Stern, and Parade Magazine.
The present photograph is from the collection of the founding Executive Director of the Canadian Museum of Photography, curator and author Lorraine Monk, OC, OOnt. who mounted an exhibition in 1987 of Richard Harrington’s Arctic photography.