LUCY TASSEOR TUTSWEETOK (1934-2012) ARVIAT (ESKIMO POINT)
FAMILY GROUP, EARLY-MID 1980S
 
stone, 8.5 x 6.25 x 3.25 in (21.6 x 15.9 x 8.3 cm)
signed, "ᓗᓯ."
 
Family Group has a decidedly figural quality to it despite being a relatively late work by Tasseor. It reminds us of some of her charming and more “realistic” family scenes of the late 1960s. As with many of her sculptures, here the lovely triangular, semi-abstract composition is dominated by the larger head of the mother at the top. She seems to be trying to hold or gather her children around her as she gazes upwards. Family Group is an intimate scene that despite its modest size conveys a sense of monumentality.

REFERENCES
See the section on Lucy Tasseor in Norman Zepp, Pure Vision: The Keewatin Spirit, (Regina: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1986), pp. 86-95. See also Feheley Fine Arts, Lucy Tasseor: I Turn to Stone, (Toronto: Feheley Fine Arts, 2015), solo exhibition catalogue with an essay by Ingo Hessel.
 
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Santa Fe, NM.