Dale Burlison DeArmond (July 2, 1914 – November 21, 2006) was an American printmaker and book illustrator.

Life

Dale F. Burlison was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, and met Robert Neil DeArmond, a native of Sitka, Alaska, while they were classmates at

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. They married on July 29, 1935 and lived on a troller in Sitka. In 1938, they moved to Pelican, then to

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in 1944 and back to Sitka in 1949. They had a son and a daughter. Her first printed illustration was for the Sitka Printing Company in 1949. In 1953, the DeArmonds moved to

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, where her husband was executive assistant to territorial governor B. Frank Heintzleman. She worked for the Alaska Territorial Library, then for the Juneau city library, where she was director from 1958 to 1979. They moved to the

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in 1991, where they remained. DeArmond died in Sitka, Alaska. DeArmond mostly worked in ink and pencil illustrations and oils - something she was unhappy with - until she took a woodcutting workshop with Wisconsin artist Danny Pierce (artist) in 1960. She never completed another oil painting again, working solely in

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for a number of years. In 1975, she traveled with fellow Alaskan artists

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and Diana Tillion to France, where she published a number of stone lithograph prints. She continued to dabble in other mediums, including several silkscreens and etchings - a short-lived endeavor as she disliked the caustic materials necessary for these prints. After experiencing difficulties with carving the blocks for her woodcut prints, she took a

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class in 1978. This was her preferred medium until she retired from printmaking in 1999.

Exhibitions

* 2008, "Dale DeArmond: Nondalton Legends" * 2009 "Recent Acquisitions '06-08", Juneau-Douglas City Museum

Bibliography

* ''Juneau; A Book of Woodcuts'', Alaska Northwest Pub. Co., 1973, * ''Raven: A Collection of Woodcuts'', Alaska Northwest Publishing Co. 1975.; Graphic Arts Center, 1986, * * ''Dale De Armond: a First Book Collection of Her Prints'', Alaska Northwest Pub. Co., 1979, * ''Berry Woman's Children'', Greenwillow Books, 1985, * ''The First Man'', Old Harbor Press, 1990, * ''The Boy Who Found the Light: Eskimo folktales'', Sierra Club Books, 1990, * ''Sun Signs from a Polar Star: A Northern Zodiac'', Old Harbor Press, 1993, * * * ''Tales from the Four Winds of the North: Alaska Native Folktales'', LapCat Pub., 1996, * ''The True Story of the Discovery of Gold at Bonanza Creek'', LapCat Pub., 1997. Based on a Tlingit legend by Dr. Frederica de Laguna. Illustrator Dale DeArmond. * ''The Raven Charm'', LapCat Pub., 1998,

References

External links

Official website

{{DEFAULTSORT:DeArmond, Dale 1914 births 2006 deaths American librarians American women librarians American printmakers American women printmakers Artists from Alaska People from Bismarck, North Dakota People from Juneau, Alaska People from Sitka, Alaska American women illustrators American illustrators Artists from Tacoma, Washington 20th-century American women artists 20th-century American artists 21st-century American women