Ted Lambert : the man behind the paintings / / by Ted Lambert ; edited by Lew Freedman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790796703321
• Autore: Lambert Ted (Theodore Roosevelt), <1905-approximately 1960.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Fairbanks [Alaska] : , : University of Alaska Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• ISBN: 1-60223-166-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FreedmanLew
• Disciplina: 759.13
• Soggetti: Painters - United States; Alaska Biography; Alaska Description and travel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Beginnings -- Welcome to Cordova -- Hiking the Iron Trail -- Recuperation -- The mine -- Low man on the totem pole -- Bud is back -- The country -- The road house -- Forest fire -- Mining something else -- Prohibition and no inhibition -- Finishing the season -- Off season -- Dog teaming : origin of a mistake -- Adopt-a-team -- The dogs teach us to mush -- Beefing up the kennel -- The education continues -- New equipment -- Early winter -- Kennecott -- Learning Alaska history -- Outfitting -- The trail -- Taming live glaciers -- Near death on Skolai Pass -- Strategic withdrawal -- Return to Skolai -- Boyden's saga -- Over the pass -- Epilogue.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ted Lambert is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a copper mine and mushing dogs-first for adventure, and then as a mail carrier. Lambert left Alaska in 1931 to study art for a year at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, then moved to Seattle, where he began a mentorship under Eustace Ziegler, with whom he traveled throughout Alaska and painted. Eventually Lambert settled down in Fairbanks,