#30 • Jon Van Zyle "Midnight Camp" Original Acrylic 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.1991, 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. This piece, entitled "Midnight Camp," amply demonstrates why he was selected as one of the featured artists in the important art monograph "Visions of Alaska: Highlights From the Morris Communications Company Collection" (2003). Van Zyle skillfully renders the "fall-off" lighting effect as the welcome heat and illumination of a campfire diminishes rapidly into the icy-blue surroundings of a winter wonderland. 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. Housed within the original frame measuring approximately 17.5" x 33" overall, with a sight view of 12" x 26.5".