Kenojuak Ashevak, the famed Canadian and Inuit art pioneer, is getting a tribute in pixels today courtesy of the Google doodle.

The search engine's daily design is a brown and ochre owl with proudly splayed feathers. It closely resembles Ashevak's 1995 work Owl and Caterpillar — on what would have been the artist's 87th birthday.

She died in her home in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, in 2013 after a long battle with cancer.

Kenojuak Ashevak's The Enchanted Owl, created in 1960, was featured on a Canadian stamp and has permeated Canadian culture. (West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative Ltd./National Gallery of Canada)

Ashevak's The Enchanted Owl, her most famous work, was featured on a Canadian stamp and has permeated Canadian culture.

Ashevak created the iconic drawing in 1960. The red, black and blue print was featured on a Canadian stamp in 1970, and quickly became an enduring symbol of art in the North.

The original The Enchanted Owl is currently housed in the National Gallery of Canada.

Ashevak was born in 1927 in a camp on Baffin Island and lived the traditional nomadic life on the land before settling in Cape Dorset.

Kenojuak Ashevak is one of the most acclaimed Inuit artists to emerge from Cape Dorset, Nunavut. She died in 2013. Despite being known as one Canada's greatest artists, Ashevak ​ is also remembered for her modesty. Ashevak ​

Okpik Pitseolak, an artist from Cape Dorset who knew Ashevak, told CBC News shortly after the artist's death that she was "very humble about her work."

Pitseolak said that when she appeared on the radio to talk about her art, she didn't want to come across "as someone who brags" about it. But she was "thankful for the fact that she was given this gift."