Peter
Lucchetti
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Alaska has been an inspiration for my artwork since I first arrived in Alaska in
1993. Experiencing this wild and great land, I was startled by the sounds of
bull moose crashing through thickets of willow and alder, mesmerized by the
flickering light of dancing auroras, dazzled by the grandeur of Alaska's mighty
glaciers and stunned into awed contemplation as whales splashed and fed a
stone's throw from my beachside campsite. Working for seven seasons as a Park
Ranger for the Klondike God Rush National Historical Park, I soaked up countless
stories of Alaska's native and pioneer histories. It is these stories, along
with the immense beauty of this "Great Land," that became seed for
hundreds of paintings.
I gained an appreciation for the outdoors and a passion for drawing as a
child when my family moved to a plot of land surrounded by the Allegheny Nation
Forest in Pennsylvania. Inspired by an artistically gifted older sibling, I
obtained a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree from Penn State University and a
Masters of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Massachusetts. Though
encouraged to "give it a go" in New York by professors, I wanted to
see the world.
In 1998 I was chosen to be Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park's
first Artist in Residence, and continued by own series of historical oil
paintings focusing on the Klondike Gold Rush. This project led to 11 paintings
illustrating "the life of good time girls" for Skagway's Red Onion
Saloon. The local Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park and Skagway Museum
both have my paintings in their collections, and this past year one of my
paintings was chosen for the KHNS National Public Radio fundraising poster.
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