Savoring Alaskan landscapes by way of birch trees has become Kes Woodward s trademark. This collection brings together thirty years of his birch portraits and forest close-ups. Over those same thirty years, poet Peggy Shumaker has traveled inner landscapes via images drawn from two deserts the Sonoran and the Subarctic. Her poems embody the harsh beauty of heat and cold, the force of true extremes. Wounded trees, marked paths, slashes of color. Bursts of passions, licks of flame. The sensual spirits of two imaginations at work fuel this this volume.

Blaze

Literature & Fiction

Kesler Woodward

Kesler E. Woodward

Peggy Shumaker

Poetry

Red Hen Press

Spirit of the North: The Art of Eustace Paul Ziegler

Known for capturing in his painting the spirit of the early twentieth-century Alaskan frontier, Eustace Ziegler (1881-1969) became one of the most celebrated painters of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest from its gold-rush period to statehood in 1959. He was one of the first artists from the United States to arrive in Alaska and was able to depict the 'Old Alaska' and the men who had pioneered the opening of the territory. This book was produced in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name organized by the Anchorage Museum of Art and exhibited May through September of 1998 at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia, and subsequently at other museum venues. Though Ziegler was the son of an Episcopal minister in Detroit and destined, like his 3 brothers, to be ordained to the clergy, Eustace trained in painting at the Detroit Museum of Art and went to Alaska in 1909 well-equipped to live the pioneer life. Intending to minister, he captured on paper and canvas the exciting character of the fast-changing frontier life of the North. For the next 15 years, Ziegler was in integral part of that life. He traveled by pack train, dogsled, snowshoe, and boat in all seasons to the mining communities of the Copper River country. In the process, he served his church and accumulated many of the experiences, stories, and visual images which he would draw upon in his paintings for decades. This publication and the exhibition it accompanied were intended to examine in some detail the rich fabric of those Alaskan years, showing the way Ziegler's work as an artist became interwoven with his work as a priest.

Arts & Photography

Estill Curtis Pennington

Painting

Morris Museum of Art

A Northern Adventure: The Art of Fred Machetanz

Hardcover edition with dust jacket presents the story of a remarkable artist, Fred Machetanz (1908-2002), whose work captured the image of Alaska as a romantic outpost of adventure, beauty and wonder.

Morris Communications Company

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