Byron Birdsall's Alaska
By Byron Birdsall and Dana Stabenow
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Byron Birdsall
Byron Birdsall’s paintings feature brilliant landscapes, as well as uniquely Alaskan images such as puffins, eagles, and fishing boats. An artist with a national reputation and a world traveler, here is a man truly excited about being alive; and this same excitement illuminates his work. His watercolors are distillations of reality, scenes reduced to their basics, with the integrity of the subject intact. His mentors are the great Japanese wood block printers, Hokusai and Hiroshige. Their influence is particularly evident in his washes, flawless gradations of color that ebb and flow. He is also known for his nostalgic renderings of historic Alaska scenes. Byron lives near Tacoma, WA.
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Byron Birdsall's Alaska - Byron Birdsall
BYRON BIRDSALL’S
ALASKA
Anchorage—1909: Several years before the great influx of settlers would permanently put Anchorage on the map, the first pioneers set up trading posts in the wild.
CONTENTS
Foreword by Dana Stabenow
Artist’s Statement
Illustrations
About the Artist
North to the Future, Alaska Steamship Co. Pier 2, Seattle—c. 1927: The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 forced out the Canadian shipping competition. The eighteen ships of the Alaska Steamship Company held a virtual monopoly.
FOREWORD
No painting technique is safe from Byron Birdsall. Having made his bones in watercolor with his first solo show in 1967, by 1981 he had moved into oils, and as if that weren’t enough, by 1987 Byron’s homage to Russian icons stepped out in all their gilded moodiness, transporting the viewer straight back to the days of the Russian czars and the Russian Orthodox Church. I remember a painting that I swear was channeling Rasputin.
One constant throughout Byron’s work has been color, from the delicate washes of his early watercolors to the bolder hues of his oils to the glitter of gold in his iconography. In this collection, just to keep us on our toes, he is switching to pen and ink sketches in black and white. He writes
. . . in 2005 Billie and