Specializing in Inuit art carvings - Eskimo art sculptures

Authentic White Stone Inuit Art Carvings & Sculptures from Arctic Canada!

Specializing in Inuit art carvings - Eskimo art sculptures, Gallery Canada is the world’s only online Inuit art gallery exclusively featuring authentic Inuit art from the Kitikmeot region of Canada’s Central Arctic.

Many of this region’s Inuit artists have a loyal following of private collectors located throughout the globe. Gallery Canada is both pleased and proud to represent these Inuit artists and offer their work to the general public.

Gallery Canada works directly with the artists of the Kitikmeot communities to acquire their latest works and carry a good selection of their carvings and sculptures at all times.

All Inuit art - Eskimo art purchased from Gallery Canada bears the artists' signature and is accompanied by a Canadian Government issued "Igloo Tag" and a Gallery Canada Certificate of Authenticity.

About the Kitikmeot Region – Central Arctic Inuit Art

The Kitikmeot region is 457,209 square km and includes the southern and eastern parts of Victoria Island with the adjacent part of the mainland as far as the Boothia Peninsula, together with King William Island and the southern portion of Prince of Wales Island. Approx. 4,800 live in the Kitikmeot region in seven hamlets: Bathurst Inlet, Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq), Gjoa Haven, Kugaaruk (Pelly Bay), Kugluktuk (Coppermine), Taloyoak and Omingmaktok (Bay Chimo). The major hamlets creating stone carvings are Kugluktuk and Gjoa Haven.

Gallery Canada exclusively features Inuit art - Eskimo art from the Kitikmeot region.

The predominant sculpture style from this region is life-like realism. Compositions of polar bears, caribou, walrus and musk-ox are depicted accurately with much attention to detail and are usually highly polished. Dioramas (little scenes with many pieces) of traditional life - igloo scenes, dog sleds, hunting or camping scenes are all quite popular.

Inuit / Eskimo Art Specialties of this area include:
Musk-ox horn bird carvings, Igloo stone carvings with removable lids and detailed scenes inside, Drum dancer carvings in traditional dress, Dioramas with depictions of traditional camp life, Stone face Inuit - Eskimo dolls and Hunter on Kayak with catch stone carving.

The Inuit 'white stone' carvings at Gallery Canada are sculpted from Dolomite - a hard, white stone found on islands in the Coronation Gulf of the Arctic Sea - whereas most Eskimo carvings from the Baffin Island and eastern regions are created from soapstone or serpentine, a hard, dark stone.

The Inuit Artists in the Kugluktuk community also carve from darker stones from the embankments of local rivers, for accessorial pieces and entire sculptures. Other indigenous materials such as musk-ox horn, caribou antler, walrus tusk, animal hide & fur, and ancient whalebone are also used as art mediums.

Gallery Canada works directly with the Inuit artists of the Central Arctic and offers a diverse range of stone carvings and sculptures, prints, paintings, jewelry and tapestries to satisfy the needs of all Inuit Art collectors as well as discriminating gift and corporate buyers.

Check out their fine selection of Inuit - Eskimo Art.