Description: In the 1950s, Chauncey C. Nash started collecting Inuit carvings just as the art of printmaking was introduced in Kinngait (Cape Dorset). His collection of early Inuit sculpture and prints represents a vibrant period in contemporary Inuit art. Drawing from ethnology, archaeology, art history, and cultural studies, Lutz tells the collection's story.
Brief description: Maija M. Lutz is an Associate of the Peabody Museum and former Librarian of Tozzer Library at Harvard University.
Review Quotes: In 1959, Harvard alumnus Chauncey C. Nash (1884-1968) encountered Inuit carvings on a birding trip to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, and began to collect them, expanding to include prints made by Inuit artists in Cape Dorset (now Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada) between 1959 and 1967. Here Lutz provides ample context for the 60 prints and 210 sculptures that Nash donated to Harvard's Peabody. The book tells the story of contemporary Inuit art, the Peabody Museum, Chauncey C. Nash's life, and how Nash built his collection.--Martha Smith "Library Journal" (4/1/2013 12:00:00 AM)