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EARLY ALASKAN PAINTING BY WOMAN ARTIST LESLEY JACKSON Sitka.
Oil on canvas, 1901. 200x300 mm; 8x12 inches. Signed, titled and dated in oil, lower left. Ex-collection Carl C. Ashby, New York.
A view of Sitka's volcano, Mt. Edgecumbe, and several islands in the Sitka Sound.
According to the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka, Alaska, the artist's father, the Reverend Dr. Sheldon Jackson, made annual visits to Alaska starting in 1884 when steamship tourism to the region began. Jackson travelled from his East coast home in April or May each year, sometimes staying in Alaska through December. Often his wife and grown daughters, including Lesley Jackson, a painter and engraver, would accompany him, staying with friends in Sitka. Records show that she and others took lessons from Theodore J. Richardson when he was in town. In fact, some of her works reflect the same subjects that Richardson painted – not an unusual practice for beginning artists.
The family of Governor Brady often hosted the Jackson women when they were in town and have a number of Lesley's paintings in their private collection. The artist's father's ethnographic collection is the foundation of the oldest museum in Alaska.
