Jane Ash Poitras (1951) - Hupa Dancers

Hupa Dancers

mixed media on paper
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "Post-War & Contemporary Art (Online Auction)" held on Thu, Jun 24, 2021.
Lot 37828
Realised: CAD $900

Lot description - from the online catalogue*

Provenance:
Kinsman Robinson Galleries, Toronto

Private Collection, Toronto
Notes:
Jane Ash Poitras began to seek her Chipewyan roots only in early adulthood, after a Roman Catholic upbringing. She earned a degree in microbiology and then went on to study art, completing her postgraduate studies in printmaking at Columbia University in 1985. There she was exposed to the work of American artists including Mark Rothko, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Rauschenberg, and Cy Twombly. Like them, she layers images and text into multiple narrative strands, a technique she has carried from printmaking to painting.
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Hupa Dancers by artist Jane Ash Poitras