Itee Pootoogook

Canadian | 1951 - 2014

Itee Pootoogook was a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1951. Their work is currently being shown at McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg. Numerous key galleries and museums such as La Guilde have featured Itee Pootoogook's work in the past.Itee Pootoogook's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 232 USD to 7,307 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is 7,307 USD for Looking at the Crack in the Ice, sold at Heffel Online in 2024. Itee Pootoogook has been featured in articles for and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in March 2025. The artist died in 2014.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Early July ,2011

By Itee Pootoogook

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Old Outboard Motor ,2011

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Two Seasons

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Recent Auction Results

Old Outboard Motor ,2011

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Summer Camp ,2010

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The Tent is Lighted with a Coleman Lantern (Quiet and Peaceful Night - Itee Pootoogook

The Tent is Lighted with a Coleman Lantern (Quiet and Peaceful Night ,2010

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Current Exhibitions

Dreaming Forward: Contemporary Drawings from Kinngait

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Kleinburg | Ontario | Canada

Mar 08,2025 - Aug 24,2025

Past Exhibitions

Faces

Marion Scott Gallery

Vancouver | British Columbia | Canada

Apr 01,2025 - Apr 26,2025

ONLINE: Six Decades of Drawing

Feheley Fine Arts

Toronto | Ontario | Canada

Mar 08,2025 - Mar 29,2025

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Articles

ArtDaily 09/03/2025

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection stewards the Kinngait Drawings Archive, a remarkable collection of 90,000 works owned by the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op (WBEC).

Daily Art Magazine 17/11/2024

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, located in Kleinburg, Ontario, is the largest public art collection in Canada that focuses exclusively on Canadian and Indigenous art.

Coverage

鈥� ..A meticulous draughtsman, Pootoogook鈥檚 images look primarily to contemporary northern life for their subject matter... 鈥�
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Marion Scott Gallery

鈥� ..Whether they are captured at work or rest, Pootoogook鈥檚 subjects are shown engaged in a range of modern activities including stone carving and watching television indoors... 鈥�
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Marion Scott Gallery

鈥� ..Although some compositions are produced from a combination of memory and imagination, Pootoogook based many of his drawings on photographs, an aspect of his artistic process that further highlights his... 鈥�
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Marion Scott Gallery

鈥� ..Known as a meticulous draughtsman and inventive landscapist, Pootoogook looked primarily to contemporary northern life for his subject matter... 鈥�
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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection

鈥� ..Alongside Pootoogook鈥檚 more familiar drawings of contemporary life and objects of the everyday, a number of drawings that depict pre-settlement life are featured in Photographic Memories... 鈥�
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Feheley Fine Arts