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The Sorrowful Princess (1988)

Wood Engraving
Dale DeArmond
Artist's Edition: 100
Edition of Artist Proofs: 10
Edition of Presentation Proofs: 10

Paper type: Archival quality
Print size: 7 ½" x 9"
Image size: 4" x 5"

Hand pulled by the artist on an Ettan etching press at Juneau, Alaska, October, 1988.

An Aleut story about a young girl, daughter of a great chief, who runs away with a man who beats and starves her. An old woman rescues her and takes her to the sky world where she marries a star and lives happily ever after. A kind of Eskimo/Aleut version of Beauty and the Beast.

Original price: $35.00