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JOHN PANGNARK (ELIJAH; PANGNERK; PANGNIK; PARNGNARK; PARNGWARK) Born: 1920 Male E1-104
Place of Birth: Windy Lake
Died: 1980
Resided: Arviat; also lived in Dionne Lake
Sculpture
EXHIBITIONS: May - June 1970 Oonark/Pangnark
National Arts Centre,
curated by the National Museum
of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1971 - 1973 Pangnark Abstract Sculpture - Kakasilala
Representational Sculpture
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
1971 - 1973 Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January - February 1972 INUA: 50 Works from the Cappadocia Collection of Inuit Art
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
February - March 1972 Eskimo Sculpture: Selections from the
Twomey Collection
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1973 Cultures of the Sun and the Snow:
Indian and Eskimo Art of the Americas
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
held at "Man and His World"
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
1974 Inuit Sculpture 1974/Sculpture Inuit 1974
Lippel Gallery
Montreal, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
March - July 1976 The Mulders' Collection of Eskimo Sculpture
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
March - June 1978 The Coming and Going of the Shaman:
Eskimo Shamanism and Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
August - Nov 1978 The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1979 Sculpture of the Inuit: Lorne Balshine
Collection/Lou Osipov Collection/
Dr. Harry Winrob Collection
Surrey Art Gallery
Surrey, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1979 Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterwork
Exhibitors of the Canadian Arctic
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
April 1981 - March 1982 Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from
the Collection of the National Museum of
Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent
Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada
National Museum of Man, Ottawa and
Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd.
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
September - Oct1981 The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher
Collection of Inuit Art
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
(illustrated catalogue)
July - September 1982 Eskimo Point/Arviat
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
October - Nov 1982 Inuit Sculpture 1982
The Raven Gallery
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov 1984 - Feb1985 Stones, Bones, Cloth, and Paper:
Inuit Art in Edmonton Collections
Edmonton Art Gallery
Edmonton, Alberta
March - May 1985 Uumajut: Animal Imagery in Inuit Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
October 1985 Early Eskimo Sculpture
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
December 1985 Masterwork Sculpture 1985
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Mar 1986 - Mar 1987 Pure Vision: The Keewatin Spirit
Norman McKenzie Art Gallery
Regina, Saskatchewan
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
April 1987 Rugged and Profound - Sculpture from
Eskimo Point
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
September 1987 The Williamson Collection of
Inuit Sculpture
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1988 Primitive Art from the Arctic
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
December 1988 - 1989 Im Schatten der Sonne:Zeitgenossische Kunst
der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the
Shadow of the Sun:Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art in Canada
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Dec 1989 - April 1990 The Stone Sculpture of Arviat
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
January - Sep1990 Arctic Mirror
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull, Quebec
Nov 1990 - Feb 1991 Espaces Inuit
Maison Hamel-Bruneau
Ste-Foy, Quebec
(illustrated catalogue)
April 1993 The Art of Keewatin
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
1994 Kanuitpit? Kunst und Kulturen der Eskimo:
Eine Auswahl aus den Museumssammlungen
Staatliches Museum fur Volkerkunde
Munchen
Munich, Germany
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1994 Share the Vision
Philadelphians Collect Inuit Art
Art Space Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
March - July 1995 Immaginario Inuit
Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Verona, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1995 Inspiration
Four Decades of Sculpture
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1996 Major/Minor
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: June - July 1972 Pangnark
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
COLLECTIONS: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Collection of His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, London, England
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Sarick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Williamson Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS: 1970 Travelled to Osaka, Japan to demonstrate carving at Expo '70. SELECTED REFERENCES:
IM SCHATTEN DER SONNE: Zeitgenoessische Kunst der Indianer und
Eskimos in Kanada. [In the Shadow of the Sun: Contemporary Art
of the Indians and Eskimos in Canada]. Stuttgart: Edition
Cantz. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.
Blakeman, Evelyn
STONES, BONES, CLOTH AND PAPER: INUIT ART IN EDMONTON
COLLECTIONS. Edmonton, Alta. : Inuit Art Enthusiasts Newsletter
December 1-3, 1984.
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
SCULPTURE/INUIT: Sculpture of the Inuit: masterworks of the
Canadian Arctic = La sculpture chez les Inuit: chefs-d'oeuvre de
l'Arctique canadien. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
London: Aidan Ellis Publishing, 1971.
Clarke, Janet
THE WILLIAMSON COLLECTION OF INUIT SCULPTURE. Inuit Art
Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring, 1988. pp.21-22.
Crowe, Keith
ESKIMOS IN JAPAN. The Beaver (301): 56-60, Spring, 1971.
Dickie, Bonnie
RESURGENCE AT ESKIMO POINT: A Silence Ends. Up Here: Life in
Canada's North 1 (6):20-23, 1985.
Gagnon, Louis
ESPACES INUIT: Dessins et Sculpture. Sainte-Foy, Quebec:
Maison Hamel-Bruneau, 1990.
Hessel, Ingo
ARVIAT STONE SCULPTURE: Born of the Struggle with an
Uncompromising Medium. Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 1,
Winter, 1990. pp.4-15.
Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
RUGGED AND PROFOUND: Sculpture from Eskimo Point. Toronto: The
Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art, 1987.
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
SCULPTURE OF THE INUIT: Masterwork Exhibitors of the Canadian
Arctic. Vancouver: Inuit Gallery, 1979.
Kalluak, Mark
PELTS TO STONE: A History of Arts & Crafts Production in
Arviat. Ottawa: Inuit Art Section, Indian and Northern Affairs
Canada, 1993.
Marion Scott Gallery
INSPIRATION: FOUR DECADES OF SCULPTURE BY CANADIAN INUIT:
Curated by Norman Zepp. Vancouver: Marion Scott Gallery [1996].
Millard, Peter
ON QUALITY IN ART: Who decides. Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 7,
no. 3, Summer/Fall 1992, pp. 4-14.
National Museum of Man
OONARK - PANGNARK: An Exhibition selected from the Collections
of the National Museum of Man,...and presented in cooperation
with Canadian Arctic Producers Limited. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic
Producers, 1970.
Swinton, George
ESKIMO ART RECONSIDERED. Artscanada, vol. 27, no. 6,
December-January, 1971-72. pp.85-94.
Swinton, George
SCULPTURE OF THE ESKIMO. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
University of Regina. Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery
THE WILLIAMSON COLLECTION OF INUIT SCULPTURE. Regina:
University of Regina. The Norman MackenzieArt Gallery, 1987.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
ESKIMO POINT/ARVIAT. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1982.
Winnipeg Art Gallery
ESKIMO SCULPTURE: Selections from the Twomey Collection.
Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1972.
Zepp, Norman
PANGNARK, JOHN: IN The Canadian Encyclopedia, James H. Marsh,
editor-in-chief. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 2:1356, 1985.
Zepp, Norman
PURE VISION: THE KEEWATIN SPIRIT. Regina, Saskatchewan: Norman
MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1986.
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