Reeks - “Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic” Exhibition

20 cm textual records.

The exhibition “Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic” was organised by the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council (CEAC) as a vehicle to showcase Inuit art internationally. While the exhibition toured from 1971 to 1973, planning for the exhibition began several years earlier. Cities visited by the exhibition included Vancouver, Paris, Copenhagen, Leningrad, Moscow, London, Philadelphia, and Ottawa. Sharon Van Raalte served as exhibition coordinator and George Swinton acted as a consultant in the selection of works for the exhibition.

Materials described here consist of correspondence pertaining to touring arrangements as well as schedules, reports, lists of works and loan agreements, label captions and bios of artists. Also found here are press releases and news clippings about the exhibition from the foreign press.

Some folders were renamed to better reflect the folder contents; previous folder names have been preserved. Arrangement of folders and contents has been maintained as found. An air freight rate schedule was discarded.

Other records pertaining to George Swinton’s involvement with the exhibition “Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic” are found throughout this fonds and especially as part of the series ‘Personal’ elsewhere in this fonds.