12 Facts About Napachie Pootoogook

Napachie Pootoogook was a Canadian Inuk graphic artist.

Napachie Pootoogook is the only daughter of acclaimed artist Pitseolak Ashoona.

Napachie Pootoogook was born in the Sarruq Island camp near south Baffin Island.

Napachie Pootoogook began drawing in her early twenties with her mother's encouragement.

Napachie Pootoogook sold her first drawings to James Archibald Houston for $20 when she was twenty-five years old.

Napachie Pootoogook continued to draw and make prints until her death, producing more than 5000 original works.

Napachie Pootoogook's art was included in fourteen Cape Dorset print collections and has been featured in many anthologies of Inuit art since the 1960s.

Napachie Pootoogook's drawings were primarily done with acrylic paints, black felt-tipped pens or pencil crayons.

In 2016, Napachie Pootoogook was curated into the exhibition "Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait" along with her mother Pitseolak Ashoona and daughter Annie Napachie Pootoogook.

Napachie Pootoogook's work is represented in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, the Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Napachie Pootoogook died of cancer in Cape Dorset at the age of 64.

Napachie Pootoogook's work is included in the collections of the Inuit Art Centre of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Canadian Museum of History, the Royal Ontario Museum and the National Gallery of Canada, as well as private and public collections in Canada and the United States.