OCT. 4-6 PART 6: LARS MATT OLSON LEAVES ALASKA
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 6 Lars Matt Olson Leaves Alaska Oct. 2-5, 2019 ABOVE – Olson on Fox Island feeding his goats. Photo by Rockwell Kent, courtesy of the Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh State University, Plattsburgh, N.Y. BELOW – Seward painter Susan Swiderski’s view of Fox Island from the shore of Seward. Published here with the artist’s permission. For more paintings and information about this artist, follow this link . Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska was published in March 1920 to coincide with a show of Rockwell Kent’s paintings. A month later, after a busy stay in New York City for his Alaska painting exhibition and his book’s publication, Rockwell Kent wrote to Lars Olson. By this time Olson had agreed to join Kent in Vermont. Arlington, Vermont April 6, 1920 Dear Olson I am ashamed of havi...