An active early member of the Baker Lake print program, Victoria Mamnguqsualuk had eight of her images featured in the first Baker Lake Print collection of 1970. It was a sign of things to come, as her work has appeared in nearly 100 exhibitions throughout Canada, the US and internationally. Wolf Hunt has some of the markers of Mamnguqsualuk’s distinctive visual vocabulary (the figures in profile, motion, and mid-activity) that would go on to further define her art for years to come. A rare print that almost never appears on the market, Wolf Hunt also has the look of the c. 1965 experimental prints from Baker Lake - lovely.

References: For more information about Victoria Mamnguqsualuk and her art see Charles Moore, Keeveeok Awake!: Mamnguqsualuk and the Rebirth of Legend at Baker Lake (Edmonton: Ring House Gallery / University of Alberta Press, 1986). For a discussion of the early printmaking years in Baker Lake, see Sheila Butler, “The First Printmaking Year at Baker Lake” in Alma Houston, ed., Inuit Art: An Anthology, (Winnipeg: Watson and Dwyer, 1988) p. 104-5. See also First Arts, Paper Pushers: Drawings from Qamani’tuaq, 11 May 2021.