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Welcome to Window to Alaska |
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| Alaskan Painters | We are a Fine Art Gallery that
carries original art representing some of American’s greatest
painters, both past and present, European Masters, Alaskan
favorites, Native Arts and Crafts, and Bronzes.
ALASKAN COLLECTION Our collection represents some of Alaska’s most famous artists. The cover piece is an original done by Eustace Ziegler. Eustace Ziegler (1881-1969), did study art at the Detroit Institute of Art and later Yale University School of Art, but it was as a missionary that he came to Alaska. He arrived in Cordova, Alaska in 1909 to serve as Episcopal minister and run the Red Dragon mission. While attending to the mission, Ziegler began painting the Native people, miners, daily activities and of course Mt. McKinley. We currently have nine paintings by Ziegler. Alaska’s most beloved painter is Sydney Laurence (1865-1940). Laurence is said to have studied with Thomas Moran, and later traveled to the artist colony at Saint Ives, on the coast of Cornwall in England. He came to Alaska in 1904 like so many others, in search of gold. He did not find gold, lucky for us, and he returned to painting. Alaska’s most famous living painter would have to be Fred Machetanz. We have many limited edition signed prints of his most famous paintings depicting the way of life of many Alaskans. Other Alaskan favorites in the collection are originals by James Belcher, Josephine Crumrine, Ernest Roberston, Harvey Goodale, Ellen Henne, George Aghupuk, Marvin Magnus, Byron Birdsall and more. AMERICAN PAINTERS We carry many well known and listed American painters with a range from Impressionist painters, traditional, Sporting to Western. Here is a sampling of the artists currently in the collection: Thomas Hill, Abbott Fuller Graves, Emile Gruppe, Michael Coleman, Morten Solbert, W.S. Seltzer, James Stuart, and John Enniking, and Charles Loring Elliott. EUROPEAN PAINTERS We carry work from painters from Russia, Germany, England, Italy, France, Austria, and Belgium. Some of the artist represented are: Thomas Barker, W. Jones, Mischa Askenazy, Ostad, Ludwig Vogel, MacGregor and others. NATIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS Our collection consists of a wide collection of Plains Indian beadwork, native masks, ivory carvings and scrimshaw to many artifacts of the past. BRONZES We have different types of bronzes. Some are Oriental bronzes of Buddha and other god/goddesses, many wildlife bronzes and dogs, and Western bronzes.
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