Plein Air - Denali, Tongass, Seward
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In Plein Air, Painting the American Landscape, viewers accompany some of America's most acclaimed contemporary Plein Air landscape artists as they provide insights into the movement through their individual styles and techniques. This six-part series introduces viewers to the beauties of America while examining the historical roots of the painting style that defines the American landscape en plein air.
Artists Matt Smith, Jean LeGassick, and Kenn Backhaus paint in Alaska. The trio paints Mt. McKinley on a rare, glorious September afternoon complete with a visit from a blonde grizzly. Next our three artists tackle the Tongass Rain Forest, renowned for towering old growth cedar, hanging moss and incessant rainfall, proving that it takes tenacity, good gear, and considerable know-how to paint in a rain forest. The last stop is beautiful Resurrection Bay, gateway to Kenai Fjords National Park. With the towering Chugach Mountains as a backdrop, the artists paint in a derelict boatyard.
Historical perspective is provided through the Plein Air paintings created by George Brown while climbing Mt. McKinley as a member of the 1974 Bradford Washburn Mt. McKinley Expedition, and an introduction to Alaskan Plein Air artists and adventurers Eustace Ziegler, Ted Lambert and iconoclastic painter Sidney Laurence whose paintings from the early 1900s have come to epitomize the Alaskan landscape.
Plein Air, Painting the American Landscape is a presentation of KTOO and produced by Bombeck Productions, LLC.
© Copyright 2007 Bombeck Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Artists Matt Smith, Jean LeGassick, and Kenn Backhaus paint in Alaska. The trio paints Mt. McKinley on a rare, glorious September afternoon complete with a visit from a blonde grizzly. Next our three artists tackle the Tongass Rain Forest, renowned for towering old growth cedar, hanging moss and incessant rainfall, proving that it takes tenacity, good gear, and considerable know-how to paint in a rain forest. The last stop is beautiful Resurrection Bay, gateway to Kenai Fjords National Park. With the towering Chugach Mountains as a backdrop, the artists paint in a derelict boatyard.
Historical perspective is provided through the Plein Air paintings created by George Brown while climbing Mt. McKinley as a member of the 1974 Bradford Washburn Mt. McKinley Expedition, and an introduction to Alaskan Plein Air artists and adventurers Eustace Ziegler, Ted Lambert and iconoclastic painter Sidney Laurence whose paintings from the early 1900s have come to epitomize the Alaskan landscape.
Plein Air, Painting the American Landscape is a presentation of KTOO and produced by Bombeck Productions, LLC.
© Copyright 2007 Bombeck Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
