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*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.
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.
*Edited smaller verson taken from the Biography from Braarud Fine Art
*Edited smaller verson taken from the Biography from Braarud Fine Art
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