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Frog and Snipe (1991)

Wood Engraving w/color
Dale DeArmond
Artist's Edition: 25
Edition of Artist Proofs: 2

Paper type: Archival quality
Image size: 5" x 6"

AKA: Snipe and Toad

Hand pulled by the artist from the original endgrain maple block on an Ettan etching press at Sitka, Alaska, May, 1991.

Brown Bear told Frog to drink up all the water in the lake so Brown Bear could catch the man/otter who killed his daughter. But the man/otter told Snipe to poke her sharp beak into Frog's belly and all the water ran back into the lake. An Athabascan folk-tale.

Original price: $80.00