The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is the caretaker of the Cape Dorset Drawing Archive, which includes more than eight thousand original drawings by Pitseolak Ashoona. Prints by Pitseolak can be found in many museums and galleries across Canada and internationally. Although the drawings listed below are held by the following institutions, they may not always be on view.
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1-877-255-4246 or 416-979-6648
Pitseolak Ashoona, Tattooed Woman, 1960
Graphite on paper
41.9 x 53.4 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Summer Camping, c. 1960–65
Graphite on paper
48.5 x 64 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Women Gutting Fish, c. 1960–65
Graphite on paper
20.8 x 25.2 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Winter Camping, c. 1966–76
Coloured felt-tip pen and coloured pencil on paper
50.8 x 65.7 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, In summer there were always very big mosquitoes, 1970
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
68.6 x 53.5 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Fantastic Animals, c. 1970
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
66.1 x 50.7 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Moving Camp, c. 1971
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
51.8 x 66.3 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Summer Voyage, 1971
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
68.6 x 53.2 cm
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
10365 Islington Avenue
Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada
905-893-1121 or 1-888-213-1121
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1959–61
Graphite on paper
21.6 x 27.8 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1959–65
Graphite on paper
46 x 61.2 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1959–65
Graphite on paper
45.8 x 60.9 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1959–65
Graphite on paper
47.9 x 60.7 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1962
Graphite on paper
25.5 x 50.7 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1962–64
Blue felt-tip pen on paper
35.1 x 41.8 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1965
Coloured pencil on paper
50.7 x 65.8 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1965
Coloured pencil on paper
50.8 x 65.7 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1966–67
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
61.1 x 45.8 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled (Bird Flying Overhead), c. 1966–67
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
66.4 x 51.2 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled (Birds Flying Overhead), c. 1966–67
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
65.6 x 50.5 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, drawing for print Innukshuk Builders, c. 1966–68
Wax crayon and coloured felt-tip pen on paper
65.6 x 50.7 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, drawing for print Eskimos on Sealskin Boat, c. 1966–72
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
66.4 x 51.4 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1966–76
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
35.5 x 21.6 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled (Bird and Woman), c. 1966–76
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
50.8 x 65.8 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled (Woman Attacked by Birds), c. 1966–76
Wax crayon and coloured felt-tip pen on paper
38.6 x 46.2 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1966–76
Wax crayon and coloured felt-tip pen on paper
50.8 x 65.8 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1966–76
Coloured pencil on paper
45.9 x 61.2 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1966–76
Coloured pencil and coloured felt-tip pen on paper
43.9 x 36 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, drawing for print The River at Netsilik, c. 1966–76
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
66.4 x 51 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1966–76
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
46.7 x 42.2 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, drawing for print Summer Camp Scene, c. 1966–76
Wax crayon and coloured felt-tip pen on paper
45.7 x 61.2 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, drawing for print Journey to Toodja, c. 1973
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
50.7 x 66.3 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, 1976
Coloured pencil and coloured felt-tip pen on paper
51.4 x 66.7 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, drawing for print Memories of Childbirth, 1976
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
24.1 x 35.6 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1979–80
Coloured pencil and coloured felt-tip pen on paper
51.1 x 66.1 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, c. 1979–80
Coloured pencil and coloured felt-tip pen on paper
46.4 x 66.5 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled (Solitary Figure on the Landscape), c. 1980
Coloured pencil on paper
51.4 x 66.5 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Untitled, 1981
Coloured pencil and coloured felt-tip pen on paper
51.2 x 66.8 cm
National Gallery of Canada
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Pitseolak Ashoona, The Critic, c. 1963
Graphite on paper
47.6 x 61.1 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Portrait of Ashoona, c. 1970
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
27.6 x 20.5 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Travelling on Foot, c. 1970–76
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
66.5 x 50.7 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, The Race, c. 1973
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
45.9 x 61.1 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Legend of the Woman Who Turned into a Narwhal, c. 1974
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
66 x 50.7 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Summer Camp Scene, c. 1974
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
50.6 x 65.4 cm
Pitseolak Ashoona, Eyes of a Happy Woman, c. 1974
Coloured felt-tip pen on paper
66.2 x 51 cm
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