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Trapper's hut, Kap Schumacher, North-East Greenland, August 2002.


Accession no.:	Y: 2012/20/138
Object name:	Chalk and charcoal sktech
Title:	Trapper's hut, Kap Schumacher, North-East Greenland, August 2002.
Description:	One of only two sketches in artist's Arctic collection not completed on site. The time spent in surveying the Inuit archaeological site on Kap Schumacher precluded him sitting down and doing this sketch, which was, in fact, done in his flat in Cheltenham from one of the B&W photographs he had taken of this historic hut, built by Norwegian trappers in 1932.
Medium:	Chalk and charcoal sktech
Artist:	Woolmore, Ray
Note:	In bay on soouthern side of Fligeleys Fjord halk enclosed by Kap Schumacher, Holmleset (No. 460-2 in Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen 1994). Lat. 74°40'N, long. 20°13'W. (Danmark-Gronland 1:250,000 Sheet 74 Ø.2 Clavering Ø.)
Dimensions:	Picture: Width: 215mm, height: 150mm mount: Dimensions: ?

Museum catalogue: Polar Art Collection