Anirnik Ragee

Ragee was born in 1935 on South Baffin Island.[1] Her parents were artists Jamasie Teevee (1910–1985) and Angotigolu Teevee (1910–1967).[2]

Ragee's most famous piece is the 2004 lithograph "Field of Verse."[1][3][4][5][6] Britt Galpen, writing for Inuit Art Quarterly, describes the piece as "interlocking and colliding syllabic characters rendered in a palette of vibrant yellow, orange and red, cool blue, green and purple, brown and inky black. . . a pulsating image that sways and nudges across the page, creating undulating shapes that spill over the edges of its boxy form, with Ragee’s layered Inuktitut words creating a complex word puzzle, seemingly legible only in small fragments. Taken from a distance, however, its composition invites the eye to form and reform swirling skies or layered horizons or something else altogether."[3]

Ragee's work is held in several museums, including the National Gallery of Canada,[1] the National Portrait Gallery,[4] and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.[5]