Artists Behind the Work
Subtitle: Life Histories of Nick Charles, Sr., Frances Demientieff, Lena Sours, Jennie Thlunaut
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Alaska UA Museum
Published: November 1, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780931163029
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Art & Art Instruction; Biography/Autobiography; Individual Artist; Art / Individual Artist; Reference
Description: This book features the life history and craft of four Alaska Native artists. As a group, the artists represent four different Native cultures and four different art forms: Nicholas Charles, Sr., a Yup'ik Eskimo known for his carved and painted wood masks; Frances Demientieff, an Athabaskan bead worker and ski sewer; Lena Sours, an Inupiat skin sewer known for her fine parkas; and Jennie Thlunaut, a Chilkat Tlingit and maker of baskets and the famous Chilkat blankets.