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Ted Lambert : The Man Behind the Paintings

Title
Ted Lambert : The Man Behind the Paintings / by Ted Lambert ; edited by Lew Freedman.
ISBN
9781602231665
9781602231658
Publication
Fairbanks [Alaska] : University of Alaska Press, 2012.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource: illustrations (some color)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
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,
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Contents
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.
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
collective biographies.
Also listed under
Freedman, Lew.
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