Elizabeth Nutaraluk Aulatjut

1914 - 1998

Elizabeth Nutaraluk Aulatjut was born in 1914. A member of the inland-dwelling Ihalmiut, she lived in the area around Ennadai Lake before moving with her family to the coastal community of Arviat in the 1960s. She was part of a small group of similarly displaced members of her group who took up stone carving following the transition from a semi-nomadic life on the land to sedentary settlement life. Considered to be a matriarchal figure within her community, Nutaraluk’s semi-representational images in stone depicting mothers nursing their children, at once tender and elemental, established her as a a leading artistic voice of her generation during her lifetime. Nutaraluk continued to live and work in Arviat until her death in 1998.

Works Available

Mother and Child, ca. 1990, stone, 9.5 x 3.25 x 4 in., $2,600

two figures, circa 1980, stone, 5.25 x 8.25 x 1.5 in.

untitled (woman’s head), circa 1988, stone & caribou antler, 11 x 10 x 2.25 in.

Kneeling Woman, 1985, stone, 8 x 2.5 x 6.5 in., $3,200

Mother & Child, ca. 1990, stone, 8.25 x 8.5 x 4 in., $2,600

mother & child, circa 1990, stone, 8.5 x 9.25 x 1 in.

woman, circa 1990s, stone, 6.5 x 6.5 x 2.5 in.

woman, circa 1990s, stone, 7.5 x 7 x 3 in.

woman, late 1990s, stone, 8.75 x 7.5 x 3.5 in.

woman, late 1990s, stone, 6.75 x 3.5 x 2.25 in.

woman, 1993, stone, 6.25 x 3.75 x 5.25 in.

Works

Self-Portrait, ca. 1995, stone, 8 x 10 x 4.5 in., SOLD

Untitled (Woman), ca. 1980, stone, 3 x 2 x 1 in., SOLD

untitled (face), circa 1988, stone & caribou antler, 6.5 x 6.25 x 1.5 in.

mother & child, 1964, stone, 3.75 x 4 x 1.75 in.

mother & child, circa 1990, stone, 9.5 x 5 x 10 in.

woman, circa 1993, stone, 6.75 x 2.5 x 4.25 in.

face, 1980s, stone, 4.75 x 7.25 x 4 in.

Gallery Exhibitions

April 24  to  May 8

From the Archives: A Flash Sale

February 14  to  March 2

Profile: Two Women Sculptors

January 20  to  February 9

Profile: Arviat Small-Scale

October 26  to  October 29

Art Toronto 2023

June 9  to  June 30

Profile: Sculptures from Private Collections

April 1  to  May 13

Land, Ice, Cosmos

October 27  to  October 31

Art Toronto 2022

January 8  to  February 13

Faces & Heads: Sculptures from the Brian P. Wilson Collection

July 4  to  August 15

Outsiders: Inuit Masters

June 6  to  June 27

Things That Made Judy Happy

October 21  to  November 25

Marion Scott at 30: Masterpieces from the Canadian Arctic