| CAPTAIN JAMES COOK |
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Artist: John Tweed bronze reproduction by Derek Freeborn
Location: Resolution Plaza (Third Avenue and L Street) |
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The Captain
James Cook statue in Resolution Plaza. The towering
bronze work looks out over the mud flats to Point
Mackenzie. . Binoculars are available, the view is
spectacular |
| 3 SHIPS |
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Artist: Anchorage sculptor Josef Princiotta
Location: Captain Cook Parking Garage (K Street between
Fourth and Fifth avenues) |
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This bronze
cast commemorates the three voyages
of Captain Cook - note the
three vessels couldn't be sailing together because
they're on different tacks (the wind is filling the
sails in different directions). |
| ALASKA WILDFLOWERS |
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Artist: Homer painter Gail Parsons
Location: Snowden Building (820 W. Fourth Ave.) |
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Parsons' towering, nine-panel
"Alaska Wildflowers" painting is on the right wall of
the Snowden Building (closest to the street) as you
enter the lobby. |
| WILDERNESS, WILDLANDS AND
PEOPLE: A PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PLANET |
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Artist: Fairbanks sculptor Rachelle Dowdy
Location: Key Bank Plaza (601 W. Fifth Ave.) |
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Anchorage residents love cohabiting with wildlife.
That was the inspiration behind the gathering of local
animals with human legs that Dowdy sculpted from painted
concrete and fiberglass. |
| QUARTET |
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Artist: William King, modernist
sculptor based in New York
Location: Sixth Avenue and G Street
(kitty-corner to the performing arts
center). |
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Long-legged, stainless
steel & aluminum plate musicians are 20 feet tall.
They serenade the downtown area. |
|
FIELD OF POPPIES |
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Artist:
Nancy Taylor Stonington
Location: Inside - Alaska Center for
Performing Arts
(F Street and Sixth Avenue - Lobby carpet) |
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This carpet
inspired architects to craft a lobby reminiscent of a
park. Take time to tour the Lobby's displayed
paintings, Native masks and carvings tucked here and
there. |
|
SKYWALKER |
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Artist: Anchorage
husband-and-wife artists James Dault and Shala
Dobson
Location: Skybridge ( 'tween Egan Center
- 555 W. Fifth Ave - and the Alaska
Center for the Performing Arts) |
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The
tightrope walker ties the sister buildings together and
is dedicated to the children of
Anchorage. Inside the statue is a scroll with the
inscription "May the wise heart of the master always be
centered in its youth." The statue is a resin and bronze
and bejeweled with Czech glass. |
|
BEADED SKY CURTAIN |
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Artist: Jeanne Leffingwell, Alaska
artist now living in Moscow, Idaho
Location: Inside - Egan Center
(555 W. Fifth Ave) |
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A
curtain - it looks like silk - strung
of 5 million glass beads weighing 320 lbs. . The curtain changes with
the light and air movement. |
|
VOLCANO WOMAN |
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Artist: Aleut artist John Hoover
Location: Inside - Egan Center Lobby |
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The woman is surrounded by cormorants in
this
interpretation of how the Aleutians were populated. |
|
ESKIMO SPIRIT CARVINGS |
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Artist: Inupiat sculptor Melvin Olanna
Location: Inside - Egan Center Lobby |
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Made
of black walnut and whale jawbone - four masks
surround a whaler in this piece, an enlarged versions of
traditional Inupiaq masks. |
|
SPIRIT BRIDGE |
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Artist: Sculptor Roger Barr
Location: Anchorage Visitors Bureau
(F Street between
Fourth and Fifth avenues) |
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A sweeping metallic piece,
dedicated to Alaskan aviator Robert Hartig, soars upward
and dissolves into downtown Anchorage. |
|
SEWARD'S MONUMENT |
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Artist: Anchorage sculptor Gerald Conaway
Location: Old City Hall
(Fourth Avenue between E and F
streets) |
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Gerald
Conaway received a block of flawed marble, couldn't use
it for a full statue of William H. Seward, so he carved
the elements that made Alaska a great purchase - among
them a bear, sunshine and the chemical symbol for
natural gas |
|
BALTO |
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Artist: Anchorage sculptors Jacques and Mary Regat
Location: Fourth Avenue and D Street |
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This
bronze Balto is just waiting to run, he's at the start of the Iditarod and Fur
Rendezvous trails and embodies the spirit of all mushers and lead dogs. |
| THE SAVE |
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Artist: Anchorage sculptors Shala Dobson and Jim Dault
Location: Downtown Fire Station 1
(Fourth Avenue and
Barrow Street) |
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The statue conveys a
firefighter's chief goal: to save lives. It's
situated where
the firefighters can see it on their way out of the
firehouse. |
| ASCEND |
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Artist: Anchorage artists Barbara Yawit and Andy Daoust
Location: Downtown Fire Station 1, south side of the
building |
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Two steel
and fused-glass ladders stretch upward, the dichroic glass appears
copper or blue (fire or water), depending on the vantage
point. |
| BEAR AND RAVEN |
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Artist: Anchorage artist Hugh McPeck
Location: E Street Terrace
(Fourth Avenue and E Street) |
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Based on childhood stories, here comes cute and funny
in bronze - rub the bear's
belly for good luck. |
| AURORA |
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Artist:
Artists/UAA professor Keith Appel
Location: Old Federal Building
(Fourth Avenue between G
and F streets) |
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The angular
metal sculpture that glows red and green at night on the
Federal Building lawn. |
| ATTAINING BALANCE WITHIN |
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Artist: Haida artist Lee Wallace and Tlingit artist
Edwin DeWittt
Location: Nesbett Courthouse
(825 W. Fourth Ave.) |
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This pair of totems are individually titled "Eagle and
Giant Clam" and "Raven Stealing the Moon and Stars" in traditional Haida style and reference the
importance of balance in Haida culture. |
| IN SEARCH OF TRUTH |
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Artist: Anchorage based Inupiat artist Susie Qimmiqsak
Bevins-Ericsen
Location: Inside - Nesbett Courthouse Lobby
(825 W. Fourth Ave.) |
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Suspended
above is the aluminum and plexiglass scene inspired by
traditional Inupiat views of the spiritual world. The
northern lights are the pathways and the kayaks are the
vessels of other-worldly travel. The figures
observe whether
the ancestral values - truth, justice and mercy - are
being upheld. |
|
BEAR SCULPTURE |
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Artist: Homer sculptor Mike Sirl
Location: Boney Courthouse
(Fourth Avenue and K Street) |
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These Cor-Ten steel bruins,
placed in the landscaping, symboliize natural family,
love and protection. |
| THE
LAST BLUE WHALE |
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Artist:
Anchorage sculptor Josef Princiotta
Location: Carr-Gottstein Building
(K Street between
Third and Fourth Ave) |
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A 30-foot
bronze blue whale (about the size of a newborn blue
whale) with a boat diving below, just to put man and
beast on equal footing. |
