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entitled Off to the Potlatch with three Northwest Coast war-type cannons in ocean surf, large Alaska along bottom margin flanked by Northern Pacific North Coast Limited symbols. Alaska's most widely beloved historical painter, Sydney Laurence was the first professionally trained artist to make Alaska his home. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1865, and studied at the Art Students League in New York and exhibited regularly in that city by the late 1880's. Laurence moved to Alaska in 1904 for reasons still unknown. Living the hard life of the pioneer prospector, he painted little in his first years in the territory, but between 1911 and 1914 he began to focus once again on his art. He moved from Valdez to the budding town of Anchorage in 1915 and by 1920 was Alaska's most prominent painter. Laurence painted a variety of Alaskan scenes in his long and prolific career, including Native American subjects, miners, and trappers and more. Condition: Folds as issued, else EXC.