More than 100 works by Eustace Paul Ziegler, one of Alaska's most
prolific and popular early artists, will be exhibited this summer and fall
at the Alaska State Museum. The exhibit will be at the State Museum through
October 2, 1999.Alaska State Museum
Juneau, AK
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Spirit of the North: The Art of Eustace Paul Ziegler (1881-1969)
More than 100 works by Eustace Paul Ziegler, one of Alaska's most
prolific and popular early artists, will be exhibited this summer and fall
at the Alaska State Museum. The exhibit will be at the State Museum through
October 2, 1999.
Ziegler, who is perhaps best known for his portraits of frontier characters including miners, priests, fishermen and Alaska Natives, came north in 1909 at age 27 to manage the Red Dragon, a community Episcopal mission in Cordova. His missionary work required extensive travel among the territory's mines and construction camps, which gave him grist for his art.
A contemporary of landscape artist Sydney Laurence, Ziegler
is credited with inspiring other famous 
Alaska artists such as Theodore Lambert. According
to the Anchorage Daily News, Ziegler's landscapes "compare favorably
with those of Laurence, but his people pictures - illustrations, portraits,
work scenes - explore Alaska's human side in a way that Laurence never approached."The
Anchorage Museum of History and Art and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta,
Georgia organized this exhibition. It includes oil paintings, watercolors,
drypoints, etchings and examples of Ziegler's illustrative skill. The works
come from more than 40 sources, including museums in Alaska and the Northwest
and dozens of private collections across the country.
Kesler E. Woodward, Professor of Art at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, curated the exhibition. Woodward, a well-known Alaska artist, has written a catalog that accompanies the show. Ziegler's works were on display in Anchorage last summer and most recently were at the Morris Museum of Art in Georgia.
Eustace Paul Ziegler images from top to bottom (click on thumbnail images to enlarge them): Cordova Native, 1918, watercolor, 9 1/4 x 8 inches; Tanana Woman and Dog, n.d., oil on board, 20 x 16 inches.
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For further biographical information on selected artists cited above please see America's Distinguished Artists, a national registry of historic artists.
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