Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2014.21.002
Accession#:
2014.21
Credit Line:
Museum Purchase.
Object Name:
Print
Title:
Hooded Merganser Print and Block Set
Artist — Creator:
Dale DeArmond
Artist — Creator Role:
Artist
Date:
05/1995
Year Range from:
1995
Year Range to:
1995
Description:
Hooded Merganser from the Birds of Glacier Bay series. Wood engraving print and block framed and matted together. Print is on proper right side of frame. Print is on off—white paper. Print itself is rectangular. The block print is black and has hand colored with yellow, brown, blue, black, and aqua details with colored pencils. Print is a Hooded Merganser bird floating on water. The bird is within a yellow and blue oval (yellow in the sky and blue for the water). The corners of the print have a blue and yellow floral motif. Underneath the print is handwritten pencil text reading: "Hooded Merganser 1/25 D.DeArmond \ imp c 95". The "c" is enclosed in a circle as the symbol for copyright.

The wood engraving block is on the proper left of the frame. It is inset, like a shadow box, so that the front is flush with the front of the print. The front face of the block has black ink on its non—cut surfaces. The print and blocks are opposite each other (and the two birds face inward). On the proper right face of the block is handwritten text in black ink which reads: "pr. — 10/25/96. On the proper left face of the block there is handwritten text in black ink which reads: "Hooded" and there is black arrow pointing "up" towards the engraved face.

Frame is red wood with a tan mat. The back has a blue paper dust cover, clear bottom bummers and a hanging wire. Back of frame has certificate of authenticity and information on artist Dale DeArmond. A silver sticker is along the lower edge at center and reads "rie munoz" and has an stylized illustration of a person holding a fishing pole and fish. The Certificate of Authenticity is a piece of white paper with black ink. It lists the artist name, tittle, medium, block size, paper, record of printing, when and where the print was pulled and comments. It also has the artist's signature at the bottom. The information on Dale DeArmond is a white piece of paper with black text. It has the image of a poster used by the Rie Munoz Gallery with an image of Magic Kayak by Dale DeArmond. A photograph of Dale working also accompanies the information.
Notes:
Hand Pulled by Artist at Sitka, Alaska in May 1995. From the series Birds of Glacier Bay. An elegant little duck with a showy white crest when it is erect. Sighted occasionally in Glacier Bay in spring and early fall.

Print is 1/25 of a 25 artist's edition series. Two artist's proofs were also made.
People:
DeArmond, Dale
Search Terms:
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Woodcut
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Glacier Bay
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