Wood Engraving w/blind embossing (two ravens)
Dale DeArmond
Artist's Edition: 15
Edition of Artist Proofs: 2
Paper type: Archival quality
Print size: 7" x 9"
Image size: 6" x 8" (includes embossment)
Image size: 5" x 6"
Hand pulled by the Artist at Sitka, Alaska, on an Ettan etching press 8.10.97.
Editor's note: the embossed ravens on the editioned print are difficult to display; they appear above the speared hunter. Its certificate of authenticity (COA) lists a regular edition of twenty-five, but on several examples the print is clearly numbered as an edition of fifteen. On one artist proof (as shown) the ravens are engraved and not embossed; this version appeared inverted in the January 1998 edition of Cricket Magazine.
The two images are very similar but not exactly alike; compare the detail of the (human) hunter's eyes and nose.
A fight to the death between an Eskimo hunter and a polar bear. The two ravens overhead are keeping an eye on things. They don't care who wins but they are interested in the leftovers.
In the end the Eskimo hunter kills the bear. More leftovers for hungry ravens than if the bear had killed the man.
Original price: $80.00