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Janet Berlo wrote this entry in the North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary[1]: 420 

""Jessie Oonark was born in the area of northern Canada known as the Barren Lands, north and west of the present-day village of Baker Lake, Northwest Territories, where she settled in the late 1950s. Her childhood and young adulthood were spent in the traditional pursuits of an Inuit woman: dressing caribou and sealskins, and making parkas and other items of traditional clothing. Oonark began her career as a graphic artist in 1959, when a Canadian biologist working in Baker Lake gave her art supplies. Her talent was immediately recognized, and she was soon making drawings for sale. A selection of Oonark's drawings were sent from Baker Lake to Cape Dorset, the only Inuit settlement issuing prints at the time....She was the only outsider ever included in the Cape Dorset print program.

Oonark was a major force in the development of the graphic arts program at Baker Lake in the 1960s and 1970s. Her singular talent was rewarded by an art advisor at Baker Lake who gave Oonark her own studio and a small salary to allow her the freedom of full-time artistic creativity. (She had previously been working as a janitor at the local church.) Between 1970 and 1985 more than 100 of Oonark's drawings were translated into prints and issued in the annual Baker Lake print editions.

A strong, bold graphic sense informs all of Oonark's work. Traditional dress, women's facial tatoos, and shamanistic themes are common in her art, yet they usually appear as isolated, fragmentary forms, shaped into a graphically bold image rather than a comprehensible narrative. Oonark is also well known as a textile artist, whose wool and felt wall-hangings reveal her as a master of color and form."

References

  1. ^ Berlo, Janet Catherine (1995), Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (eds.), Jessie Oonark, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, pp. 420–1

Further reading

  • "Knockout (Jessie) Oonark Show Opens National Gallery's Expanded Space for Inuit Art." Gazette (Montreal) 24 Apr. 1993: K5.
  • "No Signs of Slowing Economy in Blockbuster Inuit Art Sale." Canada NewsWire 6 Nov. 2001: 1.
  • "Order of Canada to Peterson, Gretzky." Globe and Mail (Toronto) 30 Jun. 1984: 4.
  • Art Gallery of Windsor. Jessie Oonark: A Retrospective. Windsor: Art Gallery of Windsor, 1987.
  • Baele, Nancy. "Artists Come South for New Ideas: Inuit Carvers Learn Marketing, Techniques." Ottawa Citizen 6 May 1991: B5.}}
  • Beavon, Daniel J.K., Cora Jane Voyageur and David Newhouse. Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.}}
  • Bell, Elizabeth. "Eskimo Art is for Kabloona." Arctic 24.3 (Sept. 1971): 154-56.}}
  • Berlo, Janet. "The Power of the Pencil." Inuit Art Quarterly 5.1 (1990): 16-19, 22, 24, 26.}}
  • Berlo, Janet Catherine. "Inuit Women and Graphic Arts: Female Creativity and its Cultural Context." Canadian Journal of Native Studies 9.2 (1989): 293-315.}}
  • Blodgett, Jean and Marie Bouchard. Jessie Oonark, A Retrospective: 16 November 1986 - 15 February 1987.Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1986.}}
  • Bouchard, Marie. Power of Thought: The Prints of Jessie Oonark. Richmond, Virginia: Marsh Art Gallery and University of Richmond Museums, 2001.}}
  • Bouchard, Marie. "Old Master: Oonark." Inuit Art Quarterly 2.1 (Winter 1987): 4-5.}}
  • Cadorette, Jeanne. "Le Musée des Beaux-Arts Double sa Collection d'Art Inuit." Le Droit (Montreal) 27 Feb. 1993.}}
  • Canadian Arctic Producers. Biographies of Inuit Artists, Volumes One and Two. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers, Arctic Co-operatives Limited, 1984.}}
  • Carson, Jo. "Toronto Atmosphere Offends the Artist from Baker Lake." Globe and Mail (Toronto) 3 Apr. 1971: 13.}}
  • Crandall, Richard C. Inuit Art: A History. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2000.}}
  • Driscoll, Bernadette. "Tattoos, Hairsticks and Ulus: The Graphic Art of Jessie Oonark." Arts Manitoba 3.4 (Fall 1984): 13-20.}}
  • Eber, Dorothy Harley. "Recording the Spirit World." Natural History 111.7 (Sept. 2002): 54-62.}}
  • Endrst, Elsa B. "The Art of Attracting Fine Art." UN Chronicle 30.2 (Jun. 1993): 74.}}
  • Enright, Robert. "The Art of Jessie Oonark." Inuit Arts Quarterly 2.1 (Winter 1987): 1, 3-4.}}
  • Everett, Deborah & Zorn, Elayne. Encyclopedia of Native American Artists. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008.}}
  • Fernstrom, Katharine and Anita Jones. Northern Lights: Inuit Textile Art from the Canadian Arctic. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1993.}}
  • Fisher, Kyra. "Baker Lake Printmaking Revival." Arctic 50.2 (Jun. 1997): 192-6.}}*Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen (1995), Woman in the Centre: a Study of the Symbols of Womanhood in the Work of Jessie Oonark using Interactive Multimedia as a Method of Exploration (Masters Canadian Studies) {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |university= ignored (help)*{{Woman in the Centre: a Study of the Symbols of Womanhood in the Work of Jessie Oonark using Interactive Multimedia as a Method of Exploration*Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen (Summer 1999), "Jessie Oonark: Woman in the Centre", Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 26–30
  • Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen (1999), "Shape-Shifting and Other Points of Convergence: Inuit Art and Digital Technologies", Art Libraries Journal, 24 (3): 38–41*Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen (1998), "CD Rom: The Process behind the Creation of "Woman in the Centre"", Women'space, Ottawa, Ontario*Gale, Thomson. Jessie Oonark: Drawings, Textiles. place unknown: Gale Group, 1998.
  • Heller, Jules and Nancy. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century. New York: Garland, 1995.
  • Hunchuck, S. Holyck et al. Patiently I Sing: Selections from the Tyler/Brooks Collection of Inuit Art. Ottawa: Carleton University Art Gallery, 1994.
  • "Jessie Oonark, RCA (1906-1985)", Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, Vancouver, 1994
  • Kritzwiser, Kay. "Bold Prints with Heart and History." Globe and Mail (Toronto) 27 Jun. 1970: 24.
  • MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/bd-dl/aac-aic-eng.jsp?emu=en.aich:/Proxapp/ws/aich/user/wwwe/SearchForm. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) Volume=1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009 *
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  • McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Royal Canadian Academy of Arts/Académie royale des arts du Canada: Exhibitions and Members 1880-1979. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981.
  • Miller, Frank L. "Andrew Hall MacPherson (1932-2002)." Arctic 55. 4 (Dec. 2002): 403-6.
  • Museum of Man, Nat'l Arts Centre, Can. Arctic Producers Ltd. Oonark and Pangnark. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Producers Limited, 1970.
  • Nasby, Judith. "The Storyteller's Hand: Canadian Inuit Drawings from the Collection of Frederick and Lucy S. Herman."Inuit Art Quarterly 16.3 (Fall 2001): 22-3.
  • Nasby, Judith; Noah, William; Jackson, Marion E.; Millar, Peter (1998), "Qamanittuaq (Where the River Widens): Drawings by Baker Lake Artists From the Collection of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre", Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Exhibition catalogue, Guelph
  • Parkin, J. "The People from Within: Art from Baker Lake." Art Magazine 7.28 (Summer 1976): 66-75.
  • Phillips, Ruth B. and Christopher B. Steiner, eds. Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1999.
  • Pool, Annelies. "Making Money or Making Art? Controversy Surrounds Baker Lake's New Jessie Oonark Arts and Crafts Centre to Boost Bottom Line." Up Here 8.3 (Jun-Jul. 1992): 34-6.
  • Rivera, Raquel. Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists. Unknown: Groundwood Books and House of Anansi Press, 2007.
  • Rochon, Lisa. "A Bright Northern Light." Globe and Mail (Toronto) 4 Jul. 1987: C15.
  • Routledge, Marie (2003), Jessie Oonark: Treasures of the National Gallery of Canada., Ottawa and New Haven, Connecticut: National Gallery of Canada and Yale University Press
  • Souchotte, Sandra. "Jessie Oonark: Giver of Life." Uphere 1.4 (Jun-Jul. 1984): 20-4.
  • Tippett, Maria. By a Lady. Toronto: Viking, 1992.
  • Upstairs Gallery. Jessie Oonark R.C.A., O.C.: Retrospective 1970-1985: Prints, Drawings, Wall Hangings. Winnipeg: Upstairs Gallery, 1986.
  • Upstairs Gallery. Jessie Oonark: Wall Hangings and Selected Prints. Winnipeg: Upstairs Gallery, 1983.
  • Vaughan, Murray and Marguerite. The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit Print Collection / Collection d'Estampe inuit. Fredericton: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, 1981.
  • Von Finckenstein, Maria. "The Art of Survival." Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
  • Wight, Darlene. The Art of Jessie Oonark from the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnipeg and Vancouver: Winnipeg Art Gallery and Garfinkel Publications, 1996.
  • Winnipeg Art Gallery. Baker Lake, Prints & Print-Drawings 1970-1976: February 27 to April 17, 1983. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1982.
  • Withers, Josephine. "Inuit Women Artists." Feminist Studies 10.1 (Spring 1984): 85-96.
  • Wright, Darlene Coward. Arctic Masterpieces: The Art of Jessie Oonark from the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1997. Winnipeg and Vancouver: Winnipeg Art Gallery and Garfinkel Publishing, 1996.
  • Zuk, W. M. Art First Nations: Tradition and Innovation, Arctic. Montreal and Champlain, New York: Art Image Productions, 1992.
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