Jon Van Zyle's Alaska Sketchbook

Jon Van Zyle's Alaska Sketchbook : Four Seasons in the Far North. Imagine yourself discovering a pack of silvery wolves gathered outside the cabin window...canoeing across a lonely wilderness lake to a favorite fishin gspot as eagles soar overhead...watching a family of bears take a summer dip in a creek...driving a dog team down a frozen river to reach a friend's homestead. These rare scenes express the very essence of life in Alaska that internationally known wildlife artist Jon Van Zyle has captured in more than forty paintings, sketches, pencil drawings, and personal diary entries.

Jon Van Zyle is recognized throughout the US and the world for his striking paintings of Alaska's wildlife and landscape. More than treeh hundred of his works have been published as limited edition prints and posters over the past thirty years. Van Zyle, who lives with his artist wife Jona in a cedar home near Eagle River, Alaska, owns a team of Siberian huskies and twice has run the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. His series of annual Iditarod posters are featured in Iditarod Memories published by Epicenter Press. A two-time Iditarod racer, he has been the official Iditarod artist and is a member of the Iditarod Hall of Fame.

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