The Brooklyn Museum’s large colored-pencil drawing, Untitled (Successful Walrus Hunt), 2009 by Inuit artist Kanaginak Pootoogook is currently on display in the Venice Biennale in Italy. The work is on long-term loan as a promised gift from the Edward J. Guarino Collection. Biennale curator, Christine Macel, saw the drawing at the Brooklyn Museum in 2015 and was so enamored with it that she decided to include Pootoogook as one of the featured artists in the headlining exhibition Viva Arte Viva, the first Inuit artist in the Venice Biennale.
Posted by Nancy Rosoff Kananginak Pootoogook (Canadian, Inuit, 1935-2010). Untitled (Successful Walrus Hunt), 2009. Colored pencil, ink, paper, framed. Arts of the Americas. Promised gift of Edward J. Guarino from the Edward J. Guarino Collection in honor of Edgar and Josep, L2014.2
