Provenance:

Gallery Phillip, Toronto, ON;
Private collection, Hamilton, ON

Note:

Having produced close to 4,500 drawings (the vast majority of which are held in the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative), some 190 prints, and a small number of carvings, Pudlo has fashioned a distinctive and highly original body of work in his lifetime. Sometimes seen as provocative for his abandonment of “traditional” imagery and the inclusion of technology new to the Inuit in the 20th century in his artwork, Pudlo, with his inherent creativity and inquisitiveness seems to have been largely above such concerns. [1] It was noted in 1990 that he was then “the elder statesman inside the Cape Dorset artistic community, a position that seems delightfully at odds with his innovative spirit and youthfully inquisitive turn of mind.” [2]

Interested in architecture, technology, and landscape, and receptive to influences in television and other sources, Pudlo's drawings exhibit an exciting range of references. Whatever the origin, Pudlo’s images are alive with whimsical energy and curiosity—a delight to those who greet his images with the same.

(1) Marie Routledge and Marion Jackson, Pudlo: Thirty Years of Drawing, (Ottawa: National Gallery of Ottawa, 1990) 13-18.
(2) Routledge and Jackson, 13.