The Tongass Rain Forest, En Plein Air
The three visiting plein air artists, Matt Smith, Kenn Backhaus and Jean LeGassick, travel to remote southeast Alaska to paint the Tongass Rain Forest, renowned for towering old growth cedar, hanging moss and incessant rainfall. This episode features a short demonstration by LeGassick, who proves that it takes tenacity, gear and considerable know-how, to paint in a rainforest. Viewers are introduced to iconoclastic painter of Mt. McKinley, Sidney Laurence, whose paintings, created in the early 1900s, have come to epitomize the Alaska landscape. Professor Kesler Woodward examines Laurence's life and art in the context of modern times.
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