Finely Carved Inuit Green Serpentine Stone Polar Bear (Henry Evaluardjuk?) art palette Such a fantastic intensity achieved

Such a fantastic intensity achieved through the most delicate means--barely there but completely present

constipation

with a lot of character and presence as well as graphic appeal

I especially love the watercolored stick pin tethering the stem of the rose at the bottom left corner of the paper in a trompe l’oeil sort of fashion

My knowledge of 19th c

Finely Carved Inuit Green Serpentine Stone Polar Bear (Henry Evaluardjuk?) art palette Such a fantastic intensity achievedI purchased this one at Rhinebeck from a dealer who found it in an antiques shop in Florida and knew nothing about it. I look at a fair number of Inuit stone carvings, but rarely come across one in this glorious serpentine green stone, which looks like a sort of mottled Jade, and here, polished to a high finish, is just gorgeous. Unsigned, but I have some notion it may be the work of Henry Evaluardjuk (1923 2007), Iqaluit, of Frobisher Bay, Canada