Niviaksiak, The Archer, 41/50, 1960
24 x 12 in.
The Archer is one of Niviaksiak's iconic images. The archer's intense concentration on the flock of birds overhead is palpable.
Niviaksiak, Eskimos fishing through the ice, 1/30, 1959
15 x 12 1/1 in.
SOLD
Ex coll. Arthur Houghton, who visited Inuit communities with James Houston in the early 1960s.
Niviaksiak shows us several vignettes from fishing camp, spearing fish through holes in the ice. Niviaksiak was one of the first printmakers in Cape Dorset with whom Houston worked closely.