Enook Manomie
{{short description|Inuk carver}}
Enook Manomie (July 24, 1941–December 2, 2006){{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=In Loving Memory of Enook Manomie|url=https://www.nnsl.com/obits/Manomie.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}{{Cite web|last=Tribune|first=Janet Cawley, Chicago|title=INUIT ART: DESIGNS OF NATURAL ORDER|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-10-10-8503090215-story.html|access-date=2021-01-22|website=chicagotribune.com|language=en-US}} was an Inuk carver.
Early life and education
Manomie, who grew up in Kinngait on Baffin Island,{{Cite web|last=Foundation|first=Inuit Art|title=Enook Manomie {{!}} Inuit Art Foundation {{!}} Artist Database|url=https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/iad/artist/Enook-Manomie|access-date=2021-01-22|website=Inuit Art Foundation|language=en}} started carving while in his teens. His father, Manomie Sako,{{Cite web|title=Sagouk Towatuga {{!}} Aboriginart|url=http://inuitnet.mywhc.ca/artist-biographies/sagouk_towatuga/|access-date=2021-01-22|language=en-CA}} was a well-known carver, and Manomie learned by watching him. His brother Towatogua Sagouk also became an artist.
Career
Manomie worked with soapstone from Baffin Island quarries. He carved using files, small picks and axes, rasps, and sandpaper. Though he was best known for his sculptures, he also created drawings, prints, and jewelry.
Manomie's work is held in several museums worldwide, including the National Gallery of Canada,{{Cite web|title=Enook Manomie|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/enook-manomie|access-date=2021-01-22|website=www.gallery.ca|language=en}} the Penn Museum,{{Cite web|title=Carving - 2012-25-67 {{!}} Collections - Penn Museum|url=https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/455479|access-date=2021-01-22|website=www.penn.museum}} the McMaster Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=McMaster Museum of Art|url=https://emuseum.mcmaster.ca/emuseum/view/people/asitem/M/120/displayName-desc?t:state:flow=36c0e068-20d5-415c-8b5c-a6a1c12e7bfa|access-date=2021-01-22|website=emuseum.mcmaster.ca}} the University of Michigan Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Exchange: Green Bird|url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/42824/view|access-date=2021-01-22|website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}} the Winnipeg Art Gallery,{{Cite news|last=Zoratti|first=Jen|date=2019-08-12|title=Aug 2019: Inuit artists recreate landscapes and oral histories in pocket-sized carvings|language=en-CA|work=Winnipeg Free Press|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/miniature-art-big-stories-535711652.html|access-date=2021-01-22}} the University of Lethbridge Art Collection,{{Cite web|title=Figures of Sedna and Man – Works – eMuseum|url=http://artcollection.uleth.ca/objects/2376/figures-of-sedna-and-man?ctx=1987ce49-6354-4855-84ed-328134c01932&idx=0|access-date=2021-01-22|website=artcollection.uleth.ca}}{{Cite web|title=Bird – Works – eMuseum|url=http://artcollection.uleth.ca/objects/13346/bird?ctx=1987ce49-6354-4855-84ed-328134c01932&idx=1|access-date=2021-01-22|website=artcollection.uleth.ca}} and the Smith College Museum of Art.{{Cite web|title=Collections Database|url=https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?museum=all&t=objects&type=all&f=&s=enook+manomie&record=0|access-date=2021-01-22|website=museums.fivecolleges.edu}}
In September 2011, CTV News reported that an Enook Manomie sculpture and two Robert Baffa photographs were stolen from a Public Safety Canada building, though the date of the theft was unclear.{{Cite web|date=2011-09-24|title=Thieves robbing gov't buildings of pricey artwork|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/thieves-robbing-gov-t-buildings-of-pricey-artwork-1.702311|access-date=2021-01-22|website=CTVNews|language=en}}
Personal life
His wife, Suzanne Manomie,{{Cite web|title=Frobisher Bay: Showing the huskies the new sleigh, are Enook and Suzanne Manomie.|url=https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0053174F&R=DC-TSPA_0053174F|access-date=2021-01-22|website=Toronto Public Library|language=en}} was from British Columbia and acted as his translator. The couple adopted several Inuit children.
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Category:Artists from Kinngait
Category:20th-century Canadian sculptors
Category:20th-century Inuit artists
Category:Canadian Inuit artists