"Who's a good boy?"

"It's me! Oolick!"

Like a canine hero from a Jack London novel, here's a jolly portrait of the faithful hound outside his winter cabin home. This is a rare antique artwork by the Alaskan artist Max W. Kollm, c. 1900.

According to the Yukon News: "Max Kollm was born in Germany in 1854. As a young man he studied under German artist Alexander Wagner, but in 1871, at the age of 17, he volunteered for service in the Prussian army and fought at the battle of Gravelotte. The following year, he emigrated to the United States." And at the start of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1896, he and his wife, Anna Sophia, came to Alaska.

Kollm is best known for working in pyrography, the technique of decorating wood or leather by burning a design on the surface with a heated metallic point. However, this artwork is an ink-brush painting, yet utilizes the same monochromatic style as Kollm's moose- and caribou-hide pyrographic works -- some of which are in the collection of The University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks, AK.

Ink drawing is in its original frame, which measures approximately 15 x 9 ¾ x ¾  inches. Overall very good condition; some minor water-staining to reverse cover, but not on the actual drawing. Some wear to corners of frame. Reverse has original framer's label. Picture-glass has been professionally cleaned, inside and out. Original hang-wire.

Drawing is titled "Oolick" at center-bottom, and signed by the artist, "M.W. Kollm", lower-right.

We may never know who Oolick's best friend was, but Max Kollm has certainly captured man's best friend for the ages . . . !

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