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Sculpture by Harold Sampson Pfeiffer

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Sculpture by Harold Sampson Pfeiffer
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Harold Sampson Pfeiffer 1908-1997. After the war, Harold taught crafts at McGill University. During the mid-1950s, he became an occupational therapist at hospitals in Quebec City and Edmonton. In 1954, he made his first portrait of a Native Northerner, young Ilya, a patient at Parc Savard hospital. The friendships made with patients gave him a valuable entrée to northern communities, and his teaching of weaving, carving, and other art forms made a contribution to the northern Native art industry of the present day. Also in 1954, Harold made his first journey north on the patrol ship C.D. Howe, as an x-ray assistant, liaison officer, and sculptor—the first of several northern tours. In 1956 he joined the National Museum of Man, mainly as an organizer of exhibitions, but continued his sculpture. In 1967, the Riveredge Foundation of Calgary purchased several of Harold’s bronze portraits of aboriginal people and commissioned him to do more. On one trip, he met the then Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, Stuart Hodgson; the meeting resulted in a friendship and several assignments to portray aboriginal people around the polar world.""Harold was a member of the Ottawa Arctic Circle and often entertained in his house, amid a plethora of bronzes, carvings, and paintings. During recent years, he worried about the disposition of his remaining busts and carvings, and was saddened by the theft of some of his works and the deaths, in India, of some of his young fellow passengers on a cruise ship. He was happy, however, to know that his memoirs would be published: The Man Who Makes Heads with His Hands."(by Keith J. Crowe) Signature on back of piece. Black marble base. 5.5" x 10.5". 11 lbs. State: City: Date: HWAC# 83547