Pootoogook, Itee (1951 - 2014)

Culture/Community

Inuit (Cape Dorset; Kinngait)

Biography

Pootoogook was born in Kimmirut, moving to Cape Dorset when he was a child. The son of artists Ishuhungitok and Paulassie Pootoogook, he made his first drawings in the mid-1980s, and later resumed his interest in drawing in the late 1990s. In 2008 one of his images was included in the Dorset spring print collection (information from Marion Scott Gallery website).