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Eustace Paul Ziegler (1881-1969) was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1881 and died in 1969. Ziegler studied at the Detroit Society of Fine Arts, at the Yale Society of Fine Arts, and with Ida Marie Perrault. He was a painter of the Northwest, a muralist, printmaker, and teacher.

Not only an artist but a priest, he moved to Alaska in 1909 where he spent the next 15 years with short breaks for training in the ministry and in art.

In 1923 at age 44 he was commissioned to complete a series of large-scale murals for the Alaska Steamship Company in Seattle. After completion of the murals in 1924 he returned to Alaska briefly. Ziegler and his family then moved permanently to Seattle where he left his ministry to pursue his art. Ziegler became a well-known and influential figure in the Seattle art scene where he remained until his death in 1969.

Although he made his permanent home in Seattle he returned to Alaska almost every summer to paint. The majority of his work, including that done in his studio in Seattle depicts life on the northern frontier.

Biographical information obtained from Spirit of the North, The Art of Eustace Paul Ziegler, by Kessler E. Woodward

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