CONTACT INFORMATION:
Dave Sweeney SweenDog01@ahgupuk.com
This page has developed from email contacts about other Alaskan artists. If you have one of these Artists and would like to display your art on our page, please email us at SweenDog01@ahgupuk.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
Dale Burlison De Armond
(1914 - 2006)
Sitka, Alaska
birth place: Bismarck, North Dakota
August 2008
from the Chris Sweeney collection
"Skookum Jim rescues Frog" /1/38 imp 1975
August 2008
from the Sweeney collection
"Frog Woman crying in the night" 1/38 imp 1975
"Raven's Feast" 1/25 imp 1983
On the "Raven Feast"
Hand printed by the artist on an Ettan etching press at Juneau, Alaska
Nishinouchi, handmade Japanese paper - printing completed August 22, 1983
Artist's proofs 5
Presentation proofs 5
Artist's edition 25
Comment: Based on an Aleutian Island story. After three tries, Raven, with the help of his grandmother, found a wife who would put up with his peculiar ways. To celebrate the event Raven went out and caught a lot of salmon and a whale and gave a great feast for the village.
July 2008
from the Sweeney collection
Eskimo Story Teller 42/100 D. De Armond - imp 1987
"Hand pulled by the artist on an Ettan etching press at
Juneau, Alaska, July 1987.
Comment: Illustration for an Eskimo folk tale about a time when
everything was dark and the men sat around in the kashim telling tales about
the old days when there was a sun and a moon in the sky was light
July 2008
from the Sweeney collection
Red Neck Grebe 9/25 D. De Armond imp1995
"Hand pulled by the artist from the original end gain
maple block on an Ettan etching press at Sitka, Alaska April, 1995
Comment: A stout, heavy beaked bird. White Crescent at the
throat and red breast feathers in summer. Seen in Glacier Bay in June
and July. From the series, BIRDS OF GLACIER BAY"
July 2008
from the Sweeney collection
Berry Picker 43/100 D. De Armond imp 1986
June 2008
from the Sweeney collection
"Juneau in 1880"
February 2008
From the Sweeney collection
The above seven De Armond black and white prints are entitled
Row 1: Chief of the Taku Edition 53/100 1960
Haidu Edition 54/100 1960
Hovnak Chief Edition 68/100 1960
Row 2: Old totem figure - Chief with a copper Edition 25/100 1961
Old totem figure - sitting man edition 27/100 1961
Tlingit Hunter 33/100 1961
Row 3: Tlingit singing woman 33/100 1961