Alaska on M

adison

Dear friends,

Please visit us in person or online to see our new acquisitions. Of course, we can only highlight a fraction of our selections in newsletters and on the website. If you are looking for a particular artist, subject or community, please contact us and we will be happy to assist you.

Inuit art

We have a wide selection of Inuit sculpture, graphics and textiles. Spring brings the birds back outdoors, and we have a number of their counterparts in the gallery. Three classic falcons from three communities are featured below: from left to right, falcons by Charlie Ugyuk (Gjoa Haven), Osuitok Ipeelie (Cape Dorset), and Paul Kavik (Sanikiluak).

We mourn Kenojuak Ashevak's recent death, but we are pleased to have a number of her works, spanning her long career, in the gallery.

Sea Dogs, 1963

We are pleased to offer research assistance to collectors. Baffled by syllabic signatures? Learn how to interpret them by using our guide, Deciphering Inuktitut Signatures, and our Inuit Artist Search Tool.

Northwest Coast art

The gallery has a number of model totem poles, in a variety of styles and materials, including an exquisite 19th century Tlingit carved and painted wood pole (pictured with details to the right), turn-of-the-century argillite poles, a large Charlie James pole, and a dynamic 1940s carved and painted wood pole.

Coming attractions

We are planning to have more in-gallery and online topical exhibitions, which will be announced through our newsletter.

We are looking forward to the 2013 Cape Dorset Annual Print Release in October.

This winter, we will offer Views from the North: Drawings from Cape Dorset.

About Us

Alaska on Madison is a gallery of indigenous art of Alaska and Canada run by collectors for collectors. We feature Inuit art of the twentieth century Canadian Arctic, two-thousand-year-old objects from the Old Bering Sea cultures, and nineteenth century art from the Northwest Coast peoples and Yup'ik Eskimos. Our collection ranges from museum-quality works to more modest but still excellent works for private collectors, whether novice or sophisticated.

Open Tuesday - Saturday 1:00 - 6:30 pm.

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