Pauta Saila
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Pauta Saila Template:Post-nominals (1916 or 1917–2009)[1] was an Inuk artist from Kilaparutua, Baffin Island, Canada who resided in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. His sister was artist Sharni Pootoogook.[2][3]
His works are massive, simplified sculptures of Arctic wildlife, usually in soapstone; best known are his dancing bears.[4][5]
Pauta's second wife was the Inuk artist Pitaloosie Saila.
He was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2003.[4][6]
Works
- Bear, at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.[5]
References
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- ↑ The ULAN and the Canadian Encyclopedia give 1917, other sources give 1916
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- 1910s births
- 2009 deaths
- 20th-century Inuit artists
- 21st-century Inuit artists
- Canadian Inuit artists
- Inuit sculptors
- Artists from Kinngait
- Inuit from the Northwest Territories
- Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
- 20th-century Canadian sculptors
- 21st-century Canadian sculptors
- Inuit from Nunavut