The Student Item Number: 2891/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Hand-painted dry-point etching print. Image shows a black line drawing of a child sitting in a bathtub (with a toilet in the foreground) facing away from a naked adult male standing at the other end facing him, outside the tub. The image of the boy has red brush strokes added around the lines; the adult has green brush strokes added in some areas. There are numerous black diagonal lines with green brush strokes across the image and many crossed lines over the adult figure. Print is signed, dated, numbered (3 of 12) and titled in pencil below the image. Framed.

Narrative

Purchase funded by the Estate of Gwendolyne Lottie Alcock.

Iconographic Meaning

One of two prints (The Student and The Day After) created as part of an artist residency at Montreal’s Studio PM. The prints depict abuse that Pitseolak experienced as a child in a the residential school system.

Item History

What

Name
The Student
Identification Number
2891/1
Type of Item
print
Overall
height 80.0 cm, width 112.0 cm
Frame
height 95.8 cm, width 121.2 cm, depth 3.3 cm

Who

Culture
Inuit
Creator
Jamasie Pitseolak (Maker)
Previous Owner
Marion Scott Ltd.
Received from
Marion Scott Ltd. (Seller) and Estate of Gwendolyne Lottie Alcock (Funding source)

Where

Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
Made in
Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada and Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada

When

Creation Date
during 2010
Ownership Date
before August 9, 2011
Acquisition Date
on August 9, 2011

Other

Item Classes
works on paper
Condition
excellent
Accession Number
2891/0001