Luke Anowtalik
{{Short description|Canadian Inuk sculptor}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Luke Anowtalik
| birth_date = 1932
| death_date = 2006
| other_names = Anautalik, Anowtelik, Annowtalik
| known_for = Graphic Arts, Sculpture
| spouse = Mary Ayaq Anowtalik
}}
Luke Anowtalik (1932 - 2006) was an Inuk artist based in Arviat, Nunavut.{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Inuit Art |title=Luke Anowtalik {{!}} IAQ Profiles |url=https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/lite/profiles/artist/Luke-Anowtalik |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=Inuit Art Foundation |language=en}}
His work is included in the collections of the Winnipeg Art Gallery,{{Cite web |last=Nunatsiaq News |date=2012-08-28 |title=Winnipeg Art Gallery displays new collection of carvings by Inuit artists |url=https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674winnipeg_art_gallery_displays_new_collection_of_carvings_by_inuit_arti/ |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=Nunatsiaq News |language=en}} and National Gallery of Canada.{{Cite web |last=National Gallery of Canada |title=LUKE ANOWTALIK |url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/luke-anowtalik}}
Biography
Anowtalik was born near Ennadai Lake, Nunavut in 1932. After he and his younger sister Kunee (Rita) lost their parents to starvation, they were relocated to Churchill, Manitoba by trapper Charlie Schweder.{{Cite web |title=Luke Anowtalik |url=https://inuit.com/pages/luke-anowtalik |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd.}}{{Cite news |last=Sanders |first=Carol |date=July 31, 2006 |title=Inuit woman making pilgrimmage to discover her tragic roots |pages=12 |work=The record |url=https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2969939}} Luke and Rita's story is shared in the book No Man's River by Farley Mowat.
Two years after the relocation, Anowtalik trekked by dogsled by himself back to Ennadai Lake where he was rescued by the family of Andy Aulatjut.{{Cite web |title=LUKE ANOWTALIK (1932-2006) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT), People of the Caribou, c. 1999 |url=https://firstarts.ca/content/feature/238/artworks-1038-luke-anowtalik-1932-2006-arviat-eskimo-point-people-of-the-caribou-c.-1999/ |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=First Arts |language=en}} Anowtalik married Aulajut's daughter Mary Ayaq Anowtalik and the two were featured on the cover of Life Magazine's February 27th, 1956 issue with one of their children.{{Cite book |last1=Heller |first1=Jules |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ReZkAgAAQBAJ&dq=LUKE%20ANOWTALIK%20collectoin&pg=PT152 |title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary |last2=Heller |first2=Nancy G. |date=2013-12-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-63889-4 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Marcus |first=Alan R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0rt1AAAAMAAJ |title=Relocating Eden: The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic |publisher=Dartmouth College |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-87451-659-3 |language=en}}
Anowtalik and his family were forcibly displaced by the Canadian government to Nueltin Lake in May of 1950, to Hennik Lake in 1957, and later to Arviat in 1959.{{Cite book |last=Kalluak |first=Mark |url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/aanc-inac/R32-140-1993-eng.pdf |title=Pelts to Stone: A History of Arts & Crafts Production in Arviat |publisher=Indian and Northern Affairs Canada |year=1995 |isbn=0-662-20847-1 |pages=86–89}}
He began carving in 1962 when the arts movement began in Arviat. Anowtalik frequently collaborated on sculptures with his wife.
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Category:20th-century Inuit artists