Hot Air Balloons Come to Shungnak by Spence Guerin Image: Shungnak is an Inupiat village of a couple hundred people on the Kobuk River east of Kotzebue, Alaska. In winter of early 1981, the Artist spent a month in Shungnak as a visiting artist in the school. After returning home in Anchorage, he created this purely fictitious scene -- hot air balloons coming to visit Shungnak. The people there would have been delighted, probably, to see this actually happen.
Shungnak is an Inupiat village of a couple hundred people on the Kobuk River east of Kotzebue, Alaska. In winter of early 1981, the Artist spent a month in Shungnak as a visiting artist in the school. After returning home in Anchorage, he created this purely fictitious scene -- hot air balloons coming to visit Shungnak. The people there would have been delighted, probably, to see this actually happen.
  • Hot Air Balloons Come to Shungnak, 1981
  • Watercolor
  • 8 x 12 in
  • Inv: SG-10
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Three dogs, a woman in traditional kuspuk, a man wearing rubber boots at the Kobuk River's edge with skiff, watching two colorful hot air balloons arrive, unexpectedly. A fictitious event!

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