Wood Engraving
Dale DeArmond
Artist's Edition: 100
Edition of Artist Proofs: 10
Edition of Presentation Proofs: 10
Paper type: Archival quality
Image size: 3" x 5"
AKA: Arctic Night
Hand pulled by the artist from the original end-grain maple block on an Ettan etching press at Juneau, Alaska, January, 1989.
Editor's note: Dale also sent out her annual Christmas card, c. 1989-90, featuring this engraving with the written title Arctic Night.
Illustration for an Aleut folktale from Kodiak Island. The daughter of a great chief ran away from home with a wicked man who beat and starved her. The girl was rescued by a little old woman and taken to the sky country as a wife for her son who was a star. The girl and the star man had a star baby and all lived happily ever after.
Original price: $35.00