Eustace Paul Ziegler (1881 - 1969) American
Oil on Canvas
Measure 8 3/4"in H x 11"in W and 12 1/2"in H x 14 1/2"in W with frame

Known for: Landscape, figure, frontier genre, mural painting
Biography: Better than any other painter, Eustace Paul Ziegler captured the spirit of the early twentieth century Alaskan frontier. Arriving in the mining boom town of Cordova, Alaska in 1909 to run the Red Dragon, an Episcopal mission, he quickly became known for his portraits of the people of the north. In contrast to the largely symbolic figures that appear in the work of other Alaskan artists of the era, Ziegler's Native Alaskans, miners, priests, trappers, and fishermen are individuals, at work and at play on the frontier. Born in Detroit in 1881, Ziegler was one of four sons of an Episcopal minister. Though he would, like his brothers, eventually be ordained to that ministry as well, he was attracted to art from an early age. He studied at the Detroit Museum of Art before coming to Alaska, and at Yale University for a year in 1920-21. The artist and his family left Cordova to move to Seattle in 1924. Though he continued to visit Alaska annually, and to paint primarily its landscape and people until his death in 1969, the artist was also an important figure in the Seattle art community for more than 40 years. Ziegler's work is widely represented in museum collections throughout the Pacific Northwest. He completed important commissions for institutions ranging from the Washington State Press Club, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and St. James Cathedral in Seattle to the Miami Clinic in Dayton, Ohio and the Baranof Hotel in Juneau. A major traveling exhibition of his work was organized by the Anchorage Museum of History and Art and the Morris Museum of Art in 1998, and was shown in museums in Alaska, Washington, and Georgia.

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