Furnishing Fabric

Textiles

c. 1960

Designed by Sheouak Petaulassie (Inuit, 1923-1961)
Printed by Iyola Kingwatsiak (Inuit, 1933-2000)
Kinngait Studios
Made at the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative
Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, Canada

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artists: Sheouak Petaulassie (Designer) , Iyola Kingwatsiak (Printer) , Kinngait Studios (Producer) , West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (Marketed by)
Culture: Inuit
Title: Furnishing Fabric
Places: Kinngait (Object made in), Canada (Object made in)
Date: c. 1960
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; stenciled
Inscriptions: Kinngait symbol in black Sheaouak Petaulassie's name seal in syllabic Inuktitut Iyola Kingwatsiak's name seal in syllabic Inuktitut Handwritten in black marker on back: SHEOUAK IB
Dimensions: 187.3 × 98.4 cm (73 3/4 × 38 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Marie Walters Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.320

Martina D’Amato, “Stenciled Cotton,” in Modern: A Catalogue of 20th century Costume & Textiles (Cora Ginsburg, LLC, 2020), 32-35, 33 (ill.).

Unknown private collector, Minnesota, by 2007 [this and the following according to personal communication from Cora Ginsburg LLC, dated Aug. 14, 2020; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Cora Ginsburg LLC, New York, 2007 [inventory number W3039]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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