#41 • Dale DeArmond "Sunshine Man Story" A/P Print

Part of June 2024 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $550.00

Status: Sold

Category: Art: Alaskan Multiples

A c.1979 signed and numbered 3/6 woodcut artist proof by the prominent late Alaska artist Dale DeArmond (1914-2006), entitled "Sunshine Man Story-  #9" Commissioned for the newly-built school in Nondalton, an Athabascan village, it illustrates the ninth story in the four volume literary work entitled Dena'ina Sukdu'a, and is told by Antone Evan and translated by Joan M. Tenenbaum as "Long ago the people were looking for game, but they could not find any, not even a ground squirrel. They had bad weather all the time, and it kept raining and raining. One day a man came to the people. The sun shone right over him wherever he walked. The people told him of their plight. The sunshine man told them to follow his magic instructions so that the sun would come out and provide them with plenty of game animals again. They did what he said, and good weather returned to them." Titled, numbered, signed, and dated in pencil, lower margin. Matted in white and framed in black, it measures approximately 30.25" x 25.75" overall.