#91 • Claire Fejes "Winter Supply of Meat" Original Ink Drawing

Part of June 2025 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $750.00

Status: Sold

Category: Art

This lively 1961 original ink drawing entitled "Winter Supply of Meat" depicts five Alaska Native whalers surveying their recently caught whale. Signed in pencil, lower right by Alaska artist Claire Fejes (1920-1998), an artist born in New York and studied at the Art Students League and Newark Museum. After moving to Alaska in 1942, she took an interest in remote Eskimo villages, and in 1958 she made her first visit to the whaling camp of Sheshalik in the Kotzebue area. On that trip, she found the subject and style that she refined for more than forty years. Matted and framed, it measures approximately 17.75" x 24.25" overall, with a sight view of 11.5" x 17".