Harold Pfeiffer, 1908-1997
[Harold Pfieffer is best remembered for his bronze portraits of aboriginal peoples.] . He had a special empathy with elderly Native people such as his favourite model, Satkatsiak of the Spence Bay region, with her weathered face, tattoos, and tales of the old days, good and bad. Harold rightly saw h...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/64175 2023-05-15T14:18:54+02:00 Harold Pfeiffer, 1908-1997 Crowe, Keith J. 1997-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64175 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64175/48110 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64175 ARCTIC; Vol. 50 No. 4 (1997): December: 289–399; 376 1923-1245 0004-0843 Art Artists Biographies Inuit Pfeiffer Harold Samson 1908-1997 Arctic regions Canadian Arctic Taloyoak Nunavut info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion obituary 1997 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:21:24Z [Harold Pfieffer is best remembered for his bronze portraits of aboriginal peoples.] . He had a special empathy with elderly Native people such as his favourite model, Satkatsiak of the Spence Bay region, with her weathered face, tattoos, and tales of the old days, good and bad. Harold rightly saw his bronze portraits as an indelible record of a vanishing way of life. Many of them can be seen in the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife and at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. . Harold went around the world several times as artist-in-residence aboard an educational cruise ship. He was a raconteur, a humorist, an unabashed name-dropper, a keen observer, and a good listener. His talents served him well in 1988, when he obtained access to Chukotka as a guest of the Soviet government, and completed his collection of portraits of indigenous people around the Northern Hemisphere. . Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Chukotka inuit Nunavut Taloyoak Yellowknife University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Nunavut Spence ENVELOPE(-45.150,-45.150,-60.683,-60.683) Spence Bay ENVELOPE(-93.834,-93.834,69.408,69.408) Taloyoak ENVELOPE(-93.521,-93.521,69.537,69.537) Yellowknife ARCTIC 50 4 |
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[Harold Pfieffer is best remembered for his bronze portraits of aboriginal peoples.] . He had a special empathy with elderly Native people such as his favourite model, Satkatsiak of the Spence Bay region, with her weathered face, tattoos, and tales of the old days, good and bad. Harold rightly saw his bronze portraits as an indelible record of a vanishing way of life. Many of them can be seen in the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife and at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. . Harold went around the world several times as artist-in-residence aboard an educational cruise ship. He was a raconteur, a humorist, an unabashed name-dropper, a keen observer, and a good listener. His talents served him well in 1988, when he obtained access to Chukotka as a guest of the Soviet government, and completed his collection of portraits of indigenous people around the Northern Hemisphere. . |
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