#28 • Jon Van Zyle "Easy Going" Original Painting

Part of June 2025 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $1,100.00

Status: Sold

Category: Art

An original acrylic painting on masonite, c.1990, by Alaska artist Jon Van Zyle (b.1942), a lifelong painter who, in 2025 celebrated his forty-ninth, and final, year as the Official Artist of the Iditarod. An experienced hands-on dog musher himself, Jon Van Zyle and his wife Jona, maintained a team of Siberian Huskies near Eagle River. In "Easy Going," a 1990 acrylic on board painting, the design employs an asymmetrical composition reminiscent of the great Japanese prints, famous for their poetic and spare visual celebration of nature. The small scale of the dogsled in this scene creates an effective impression of the vast distances these courageous athletes, dog and man, often travel. Signed and dated lower right by the artist, the piece is further titled, signed, and dated in the artist’s hand en verso, with note reserving all reproduction rights as held by the artist. There is some loss of the gold leaf on the frame's edges, and some staining to the cloth portion of the frame. Housed within the original frame, measuring approximately 26.75" x 14" overall.