DAVIE ATCHEALAK (TEEVEE; DAVIDEE; ACHEALUK; DEVIE)

Born: 1947 Male E7-1182
Place of Birth: Ikirasaq, down coast from Cape Dorset
Resides: Iqaluit; also lived in Pangnirtung, Cape Dorset, Lake Harbour, and Markham Bay
Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Paintings

 

EXHIBITIONS:

May - June 1981 Pangnirtung - Recent Sculpture
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)

September 1981 Exhibition and Sale of Musk-Oxen
& Bears
Cottage Craft Gifts & Fine Arts Ltd.
Calgary, Alberta

October 1981 Cape Dorset Exhibition
Franz Bader Gallery
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

October - December 1982 Collector's Choice: 1965-1980
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)

November - December 1984 Pangnirtung 1984: Eskimo Print Collection
and Sculpture
Images of the North
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)

 

COLLECTIONS:

Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta

HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS:

1979 Attended the opening of his first solo exhibition, held at the Snow Goose
in Ottawa.

1980 Asked by the Department of Public Works to submit sketches for low-relief
carvings for the exterior of the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings
in Ottawa.

1989 In May, Davie Atchealak's whalebone figure 'Drum Dancer' sold at Waddington's
Inuit Art Auction in Toronto for $41,000.00, which establishes a record
auction price for an Inuit carving.

 

SELECTED REFERENCES:

CEAC [Canadian Eskimo Arts Council]
TRANSCRIPT OF THE INTERVIEW WITH DAVIE ATCHEALAK: Interviewed
by Sharon van Raalte, translation by Annie Atchealak in May
1985 in Pangnirtung, N.W.T. Ottawa: Department of Indian and
Northern Affairs, 1985.

Canadian Arctic Producers
DAVIE ATCHEALAK: Sculpture. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers
Cooperative Limited, 1980.

Dewar, Patricia
YOU HAD TO BE THERE. Nepean,Ont.: Inuit Art Quarterly, 9(1)
Spring 1994, pp. 20-28.

Houston, John
DAVIE ATCHEALAK: Hunter, Sculptor, Provider. Arts & Culture of
the North, vol. 3, no. 2, February, 1979. pp.146-147.

Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
COLLECTOR'S CHOICE: 1965 - 1980. Vancouver: Inuit Gallery, l982.

Macduff, Alistair
LORDS OF THE STONE: An Anthology of Eskimo Sculpture. / By
Alistair Macduff. Photographs by George M. Galpin. North
Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1982.

Routledge, Marie
INUIT ART IN THE 1970s/L'ART INUIT ACTUEL: 1970-79. Kingston,
Ont. : The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1979.

Seidelman, Harold and James Turner
THE INUIT IMAGINATION: Arctic Myth and Sculpture.
Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993.