Photo #14
The Coming of Spring 1989 Tukiki Manomie (1952- ) Inuit Cape Dorset (Kinngait), Nunavut Mottled stone Gift of the Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Government of the Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories CMH, IV-C-5426 Photo: Harry Foster, Canadian Museum of History The artist called the work The Coming of Spring because he was working on this piece during that season. Tukiki belongs to the second generation of artists in Cape Dorset who have become full-time sculptors. This sculpture demonstrates the tendency among this group to challenge the stone rather than work with its inherent "stoneness." |
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