ALASKA USED
BY ARTIST IN
SACRED WORK
SCENERY AND NATIVES FIGURE
AS A BACKGROUND FOR FINE
PAINTING
VAN EMPLE NOW IN CALIFORNIA
FORMER SEWARD ARTIST RECEIV
ES MUCH PRAISE IN SAN
FRANCISCO
The Jan Van Emple “Resurrection”
in the local St. Peter’s Protestant Epis
copal church, received a splendid
writeup recently in the San Francisco
Examiner. Accompanying the arti
cle was a large-sized reproduction of
the painting.
The article follows:
An alien artist coming to Alaska
painted a picture of the Resurrection
with natives, miners and settlers
grouped around the open tomb of our
Lord and a range of Alaskan moun
tains in the background.
This painting forms in the reredos
for the altar in the St. Peters Episco
pal church at Seward, Alaska. Jan
Van Emple, the Dutch artist who con
ceived it, made it a thing of beauty
and of piety. One understands the
native mother who cannot lift her
head to Heaven because her baby
weighs so heavily upon her back. One
is not offended by the miner in sus
penders, nor by his pan, that rolled
in front of the open tomb.
Jan Van Empel does not belong to
our century. He should have lived
in ancient Greece. He has never
followed in the path broken by an
other, preferring to force his way thru
the tangled growth. He is an artist
by the grace of God and a philoso
phic tramp by preference.
One Crtiic's Views
A famous critic once said about him:
“Van Emple will be materially success
ful only if he by chance paints some
thing conventional.”
It happened that Bishop Peter T.
i Rowe of Ihe Alaska diocese once ask
ed the artist wild lived in a lone'ly
cabin in Seward, together with his dog
and his canvases and a shelf of early
French poets, if he had ever painted
a sacred picture. Van Emple thot
this over, for he had known ecstasy
when at work on some of his majestic
Alaskan scenes, and to him they rep
resented so many hymns. But he
answered: no, he had not made any
sacred drawings in the accepted sense.
Would he paint one for the church?
Yes.
So Van Emple went back to his
cabin studio and the idea of an Alas-1
kan Resurrection came to him.
Resurrection Bay Used
I The upper portion of the painting
shows the figure of Christ, with the
angels kneeling at his feet. The
background is formed by the moun
tains and waters of Resurrection bay
near Seward. Joyful, upward lines
t characterize the composition.
The artist has just arrived from the
North, bringing with him over thirty
paintings of Alaskan scenes. He
plans to give an exhibition in San
Francisco.
Jan Van Emple has lived in Ameri
| ca twenty-eight years, ever since he
ran away from school and came to
the New World as a cabin boy. He is
a member of the Whitney studio club
of New York and has taken part in a
number of Eastern exhibits.
The widow of Bjornstjerne Bjorn
son, famed Norwegian poet, is still
living at the age of 90. Her noted
husband died in 1910.
Chicago bandits robbed Miss Flor
ence Orben of $200 which she was car
rying in her stocking.
Knights of the Road
Headed Alaskaward
Seward and this distriet of the
Territory will shortly he Invaded by
numerous traveling salesmen com
prising the spring advance of the
knights of the road. Among those
who are now headed this way are
<C. W. Mettler, representative of the
Fithran-Barker Shoe Company, of
Portland, and J. Chadwick, who is
once again hack with the U. S. Rub
ber Co.
Harry Rupert, well known Alas
kan salesman for the U. S. Rubber
Company, has resigned, it is stated,
having accepted a more lucrative po
sition. W. C. Baird, formerly rep
resenting the Ball Brand Rubber
Company, has also resigned his posi
tion and. is now in business for him
self in Portland. It is said he is do
ing very well. The firm’s name is
R. H. Grande.
James and Charles Arden, brothers,
were arrested in London for kidnap
ping and swindling their grandfather
aged 81.
Arrests of pickpockets and shop lift
ers in Chicago during the recent holi
day season broke all records.
When the automobile of James Kad
cliffe of Winnetoka, 111., ran upon the
sidewalk and stopped, he was found
dead at the steering wheel.
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THE SEWARD
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Will be published every Friday, the
first issue appearing in February
THE SEWARD WEEKLY GATEWAY WILL BE A NEW DEPARTURE m
the field of Alaska journalism, and will start off with a circulation of nearly 1000
eopiec It will contain the Associated Press News of the week, local news and Ter
ritorial News, as well as news of the mining and fishing industries. The Seward
Weekly Gateway will have nearly exclusive ‘entry to the vast district west of Sew
ard owing to geographic location, and will have a splendid staff of correspondents
in each camp! Subscribers taking the Saturday Gateway will be transferred to the
Weekly Gateway as it will be more in line with what they expect in a weekly paper.
We believe this new venture will prove sueessful inasmuch as it will offer an adver
tising medium for outside advertisers to reach the westward public.
While The Seward Weekly Gateway will be published in Seward, for a time at
least, it will be distinctively an Alaskanpublieation, by Alaskans for Alaskans. Ad
vertising rates will be 50 cents per inch per issue or $2.00 per month.
Only $3.00 the Year
Rev. Father Kochergin
Returns To Unalaska
______
Rev. ‘-’Father Gregory &>cherglri,
who offl’iciatea over the pillage of
Unalaska, to the westward, returned
home on. the last trip of the steam
er Starr from Perryiville where the
Russian holidays were observed on
quite an elaborate scale.
The Russian Christmas begins on
January 7, and continues thruout
.the 8th and 9th. The Russian New
Year falls on January 14.
Three private cars and three busses
all crashed together in St. Louis, but
no one was injured,
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