iii. Twentieth Century Inupiat artists
Happy Jack (Angokwazhuk), Carving, walrus ivory and ink, ca. 1900, NMAI 5/3086
As with artists of earlier generations, Iñupiat people of the twentieth century took up the role of the artist with linked concerns about technical skill, material practice and socially-engaged aesthetics. Like the artists who produced the drawings in this exhibition, their interest in continuing Iñupiat ways of making things did not prevent them from incorporating new ideas, media and concepts of display and exchange into their work. Below are links to short entries about a number of artists whose work exemplifies this.
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