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Inukshuk (angnak & angon)
Inukshuk (angnak & angon)
Inukshuk (angnak & angon)

Inukshuk (angnak & angon)

Artist (American, 1939 - 2019)
Printer (American, born 1950)
Publisher (founded 1970)
Date2005
Mediumlithograph
Dimensions30 3/16 × 24 in. (76.7 × 61 cm)
Image (a): 9 7/8 × 6 5/16 in. (25.1 × 16 cm)
Support (a): 15 1/16 × 12 in. (38.3 × 30.5 cm)
Image (b): 10 3/16 × 6 1/2 in. (25.9 × 16.5 cm)
Support (b): 15 1/8 × 12 in. (38.4 × 30.5 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by Luke Sullivan in honor of his parents, Patrick and Mary, for their limitless love & innumerable gifts and graces; and in honor of Gendron Jensen, for a life courageously and gracefully loved, 2012
Object number2012.32.19ab
DescriptionTotemic configurations of stacked bones float in center of each paper
Text Entries
Gendron Jensen has been working in northern New Mexico since 1987. Working directly from nature as a realist, Jensen’s work reflects an homage to the natural world and an interest in the taxonomies that comprise it. He often works with specimens studied in natural museum collections or found in nature. At the same time, Jensen takes certain liberties with the bones, combining bones of distinct animals, for example, to tell a broader narrative. The New Mexico Museum of Art is the only museum to represent Gendron Jensen’s complete works in printmaking, which has been an important aspect of his artistic practice since he was in a Benedictine monastery during his 20s and worked in the monastery print shop. This diptych is based on tail bone relics from two different blue whales: a female whose tail relic was found in the Sea of Japan in 1910 and now in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History; and a male who was rammed by a ship south of San Diego, and whose tail relic is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. The title is derived from an Inuit word meaning “like, or similar to, a man.”
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