The paintings of Alaskan artist Fred Machetanz's paintings that are on displayed at the Anchorage Museum depict the daily life of living in Alaska.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Anchorage resident Cheryl McKay is the granddaughter of Charles Traeger, a gold miner who came to Alaska in the late 1800s.
“It’s like Fred documented life in the village at that time, and you can see many of the elders and their babies and the hunting and he loved dogs,” McKay said. “I’ve always liked the polar bears just because of that unique blue and I remember visiting his studio outside of Palmer where he and Sara, his wife lived and he gave us a tour of his studio and just spoke so eloquently about the layers of blue he would use to create these amazing works of art and to reflect the light the way it does off the ice and the water,” McKay said.
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