The Enchanted Owl Spreads Its Wings
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In 1970, Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak saw her piece The Enchanted Owl reproduced by Canada Post on a six-cent stamp commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the Northwest Territories.The release marked the first time a female Inuit artist’s work had been displayed on a Canadian stamp.
Ashevak, who was born in an igloo on the southern coast of Baffin Island in 1927, is considered one of Canada’s most influential artists and a pioneer in modern Inuit art. The Enchanted Owl, a colour stonecut on laid paper, is one of her most recognized and celebrated works of art.
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Ashevak became the first Inuit artist inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2001. She died at the age of eighty-five in her home in Cape Dorset, Nunavut.
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