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Birth Year: 1916

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Newton Rowell Bowles

First Name: Rowell

Last Name: Bowles

Biography (English): Born in China, comes from a Canadian family distinguished in public service. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he was President’s Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He joined the United Nations post-war UNRRA in 1945, serving in China in 1946-48, in charge of humanitarian aid during the civil war. Joining UNICEF in 1948, he became director of worldwide programmes (1965-78); and, latterly, senior policy advisor. Since his retirement, he continues as pro bono advisor on UNICEF’s emergency operations, is a Board Member of the UN NGO Disarmament Committee and is the UN Representative of the United Nations Association in Canada. For nine years he has prepared annual comprehensive reports on the UN General Assembly. In 2001, he produced a perceptive account of the UN in the last decade of the 20th century (The Diplomacy of Hope). Newton Bowles is also an accomplished artist whose paintings are collected in several North American museums.

Biography (French): Né en Chine, vient d'une famille canadienne distinguée dans la fonction publique. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme de l’Université de Toronto, il a été President’s Fellow à l’Université Johns Hopkins. Il a rejoint l'UNRRA des Nations Unies après la guerre en 1945, servant en Chine de 1946 à 1948, chargé de l'aide humanitaire pendant la guerre civile. Rejoignant l'UNICEF en 1948, il devient directeur des programmes mondiaux (1965-78) ; et, dernièrement, conseiller politique principal. Depuis sa retraite, il continue à titre de conseiller pro bono pour les opérations d’urgence de l’UNICEF, est membre du conseil d’administration du Comité de désarmement des ONG des Nations Unies et est le représentant des Nations Unies de l’Association des Nations Unies au Canada. Pendant neuf ans, il a préparé des rapports annuels complets sur l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies. En 2001, il a produit un récit perspicace de l’ONU dans la dernière décennie du 20e siècle (La Diplomatie de l’Espoir). Newton Bowles est également un artiste accompli dont les peintures sont collectionnées dans plusieurs musées nord-américains.

Birth Year: 1916

Medium: painting

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Carol Martyn

First Name: Carol

Last Name: Martyn

Biography (English): Carol Martyn studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto, from 1934-36, and at the Stratford Normal School in 1937. From 1938 to 1944, she taught primary school in New Dundee, Ontario, and Stratford. In 1945, at the end of World War II, Martyn moved to Toronto to work as a ticket agent for Trans Canada Airlines (now Air Canada). In 1950, in part to cope with the death of her father in 1948, Martyn begins night courses in drawing with Aba Bayefsky at Central Technical School in Toronto. In the following decade of night classes at the Artists' Workshop in Toronto, her instructors include John Hall and William Winter. She begins to travel to the art meccas of Europe, Mexico and Central America. In 1962, she spends a full year studying drawing, painting, sculpture and design at Instituto Allende, the world-famous art institute in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. In 1965, Martyn rents a studio in the nascent Mirvish Village area of Toronto, producing her Hexagon series (Homage to James Pinto #2) and exhibiting in group shows in Toronto and San Miguel. In 1971, her Time Warp series is featured at her first major show, at Toronto's Aggregation Gallery. Martyn moves her studio to Toronto's soon-to-be-trendy Queen Street West area in 1973, in a building housing several other studios and an art gallery. Martyn's Nest series evolves into sculpture, while her hitherto abstract painting explodes in images of political and feminist consciousness with Gorilla-Guerrilla, Viva, Women's Committee, Wounded Woman and similar works. In 1987, Martyn takes a studio in a disused factory on Landsdowne Ave., in west-end Toronto, which now houses a virtual artists' village. She begins her Unknown Woman series (Unknown Woman #1, Unknown Woman #2, Unknown Woman #7, etc.), continuing into the 1990s with works like Lola - The Revolutionary and her nine-part Goddesses (Artemis, Chloe, etc.).

Biography (French): Carol Martyn a étudié au Victoria College de l'Université de Toronto de 1934 à 1936, puis à la Stratford Normal School en 1937. De 1938 à 1944, elle a enseigné à l'école primaire de New Dundee, en Ontario, et de Stratford. En 1945, à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Martyn déménage à Toronto pour travailler comme agent de billets pour Trans Canada Airlines (maintenant Air Canada). En 1950, en partie pour faire face au décès de son père en 1948, Martyn commence des cours du soir de dessin avec Aba Bayefsky à la Central Technical School de Toronto. Au cours de la décennie suivante de cours du soir à l'Artists' Workshop de Toronto, ses instructeurs incluent John Hall et William Winter. Elle commence à voyager dans les hauts lieux de l'art d'Europe, du Mexique et d'Amérique centrale. En 1962, elle passe une année complète à étudier le dessin, la peinture, la sculpture et le design à l'Instituto Allende, l'institut d'art de renommée mondiale de San Miguel de Allende, au Mexique. En 1965, Martyn loue un studio dans le quartier naissant de Mirvish Village à Toronto, produisant sa série Hexagon (Homage à James Pinto #2) et exposant dans des expositions collectives à Toronto et à San Miguel. En 1971, sa série Time Warp est présentée lors de sa première grande exposition, à la Aggregation Gallery de Toronto. Martyn déménage son studio dans le quartier bientôt branché de Queen Street West à Toronto en 1973, dans un immeuble abritant plusieurs autres studios et une galerie d'art. La série Martyn's Nest évolue vers la sculpture, tandis que sa peinture jusqu'ici abstraite explose en images de conscience politique et féministe avec Gorilla-Guerrilla, Viva, Women's Committee, Wounded Woman et des œuvres similaires. En 1987, Martyn s'installe dans une usine désaffectée de l'avenue Landsdowne, dans l'ouest de Toronto, qui abrite aujourd'hui un village d'artistes virtuel. Elle commence sa série Unknown Woman (Unknown Woman #1, Unknown Woman #2, Unknown Woman #7, etc.), se poursuivant dans les années 1990 avec des œuvres comme Lola - The Revolutionary et ses neuf déesses (Artemis, Chloé, etc. ).

Birth Year: 1916

Medium: painting

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ᐳᓗ ᐳᓚ Pudlo Pudlat

First Name: ᐳᓗ ᐳᓚ Pudlo

Last Name: Pudlat

Biography (English): Pudlo Pudlat was a Canadian Inuk artist whose preferred medium was a combination of acrylic wash and coloured pencils. His works are in the collections of most Canadian museums. At his death in 1992, Pudlat left a body of work that included more than 4000 drawings and 200 prints. Pudlat began drawing in the early 1960s after he abandoned the semi-nomadic way of life and settled in ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait [Cape Dorset]. He experienced firsthand the radical transformation of life in the Arctic that occurred in the 20th Century and reached its peak in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, when he was already in his 40s, he moved to Kiaktuuq near ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait to recover from a bout of tuberculosis. It was there he met Inuit art pioneer James Archibald Houston and began his career as an artist. Pudlat spent 33 years creating art. He began by carving sculpture, but he found carving difficult because of an arm injury, so he switched to drawing around 1959 or 1960. Initially encouraged by James Houston and then by Terry Ryan of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (now known as the Kinngait Co-operative), he embraced drawing and later printmaking and painting as these media were introduced in the north. Pudlat occasionally traveled south and to other parts of the Arctic for medical treatment. The objects he encountered his travels, especially airplanes, are prominent in his subject matter. In 1972 one of Pudlat's prints was selected for reproduction on a UNICEF greeting card. Pudlat travelled to Ottawa to attend the opening of an exhibition of the works. He remembered it as the first work for which he was invited south and accorded public recognition.

Biography (French): Palluq Pullat Palluq inuuliqtuminiq Villuali 1915, Ilupirulimmi, Ammarjuat saniani ungasinniqaqsuni 350 kilumiita mitsaani kanannangani Kinngait, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut. Qaujimajaujjutilik titiqtugarnik 4500-nik (titiqtugaliarisimajut, titiqtugait, amiaqsimajullu) sanasimajangit arraaguit 33 iluani. Pigiarutiqaqpallialauqsimajuugaluaq sanannguanirmik kisiani quviagilauqsimanngimmauk, utirami Kiaktuumut, titiqtugaqattapallialilauqsimajuq 1958 uvvalu 1960. Tiliuqtaugianngalauqsimatsuni James Houston-mut ammalu Terry Ryan-mut, ilitaqsisitsautigilauqsimajuq titiqtugarnirmik, ammalu kinguningagut titiqtugaliurnirmik amiarinirmillu, niruaqtariliqsugu. Palluq kingulliqpaami titiqtugangit takutsaujut arraagutamaaqsiutini titiqtugarni 1993-mi. Inuujunniilauqtuq Tiisippiri 28, 1992

Website Link: https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/profiles/artist/Pudlo-Pudlat

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Birth Year: 1916

Medium: drawing printmaking

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ᔭᓐ ᑎᑕ John Tiktak

First Name: ᔭᓐ ᑎᑕ John

Last Name: Tiktak

Biography (English): ᔭᓐ ᑎᑕ John Tiktak RCA was a Canadian Inuk sculptor who spent most of his artistic career in ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ / Kangiqliniq [Rankin Inlet]. Most of his sculptures take the human form as their subject. Tiktak lived a traditional Inuit lifestyle until he moved to ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ / Arviat in the 1950s. He moved to ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ / Kangiqliniq in 1958, where he began to work as a sculptor in 1963. His figurative work is minimal in style, and so is modern in appearance. Distinctive stylistic traits include very rounded forms and hands that are attached to the sides of the figure, so that the arms are circular in shape.

Biography (French): John Tiktak John Tiktak inuuliqtuminiq Jaanuali 1916 Kareami, pingannangani Tasiujarjuap akunningani Arviat ammalu Tikirarjuaq. Tiktak inuulauqtuq piqqusituqaqtigut, angunasuppatsutik namutuinnaq nuttilaunnginirmini Arvianut 1950 qitigalangani ammalu Kangiqsinirmuuqsutik 1958-ngutillugu. Sanannguarumavallialilauqsimajuq Kangiqsinirmiungutsuni ammalu sanaugaqtiruliqsuni arraagungani 1963. Amisut sanaugaqtiit taimaimmata Kivallirmiut Tiktak sanannguarajuttuq inunnguanik. Inutuannguat, anaanangit qiturngariillu ammalu katinngajut niaqunnguat kiinannguallu takutsautitsillarittut Tiktaup sanannguaganginnik. Sanasitimmariutsuni sanaugangit takutsautitsitsiaqtuq ammalukitaujingajunik ammalu tukimuniqatsiaqtunik. Tiktaup sanannguagangit ilagijausimajut takutsautitaujuni 1970-minit ammalu niruaqtaulauqsimagilluni Royal Canadian Academy-kunnut 1973-mi. Tiktak sivulliqpauqatausimajuq inunnik sanaugaqtinik ajjiliuqtausimallutik takutsautitautillugit sanannguagangit kinakkutuinnarnut takujagaqarvimmi; Sanannguaqtiit Kangisinirmik, Nunatsiarmik takutsautitaulauqsimajuq silattusarvijjuangani Maanituuvvaup 1970-mi. Sanaugaqti upatsimajujuq matuiqtauniqaqtillugu takutsautitsiniq takujagaqaqvik 111-mi, silattusarvijjuangani, Winnepeg-mi. Sanaugaqtiuqatimititut, sanaugaqti John Kavi, John Tiktaup atinga taimaimmijuq sanannguanirmut Kangiqsinirmi. John Tiktak inuujunniilauqsimajuq 1981.

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Birth Year: 1916

Medium: sculpture

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