Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2008.49.001
Accession#:
2008.49
Credit Line:
Purchase of this artwork has been made possible through the generous support of the Rasmuson Foundation.
Object Name:
Painting, Oil
Title:
Discovery of the 2 Cycle Engine
Artist — Creator:
DeRoux, Dan
Date:
2007
Description:
Oil painting on canvas by Dan DeRoux.
Landscape paining showing a brightly lit, orange sky on the top half of the canvas. On canvas landscape with a man in a Chilkat blanket at bottom proper right.
Written on the reverse of the canvas in pencil: "The Goods Are Odd/Daniel DeRoux/2006" This inscription however is not visible, as a piece of acid free blue board has been attached to the frame.
Landscape paining showing a brightly lit, orange sky on the top half of the canvas. On canvas landscape with a man in a Chilkat blanket at bottom proper right.
Written on the reverse of the canvas in pencil: "The Goods Are Odd/Daniel DeRoux/2006" This inscription however is not visible, as a piece of acid free blue board has been attached to the frame.
Notes:
"The Goods Are Odd" — there is a prior painting on the canvas beneath "Invention of the 2 Cycle Engine." It was a play on the saying: "For Alaska Women the odds are good but the goods are odd, " and showed a woman fishing with a pole and pulling in an Alaska man. This was painted in 2006.
People:
DeRoux, Daniel
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The Invention of the 2 Cycle E
The Invention of the 2 Cycle E