Henry Wood Elliott 1846-1930 A Retrospective Exhibition; Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum May 30 - August 1, 1982 / Alaska State Museum August 21 - September 26, 1982
Anchorage: Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Square-ish 8vo. Pp. 56. Illustrated with black and white photo portraits of Elliott and his wife, Alexandra Melovidov Elliott. Two-page introduction by Robert Shalkop, followed by his 12-page essay. Illustrated by color and black and white reproductions of Elliott's work. With a two-page list of references that informed Shalkop's overview. Bound in stiff, illustrated wraps, saddle-stapled. Slight evidence of age, else Fine. Near Fine. Item #2097
While Elliott (1846-1930) is primarily known as a painter who captured the romance and natural history of the Pacific Northwest Coast, his pioneering environmental activism led to the 1911 Hay-Elliott Fur Seal Treaty, co-written by Wood with US Secretary of State John Hay. The crux of the treaty was to control the existing exploitation, by world powers, of Northern fur seals and sea otters in the Pribilof Islands of the Bering Sea. The treaty, which outlawed open-water seal hunting, was the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation. Most of Elliott's paintings have now transitioned from private residences to museums. A handsome exhibit catalog, now housed in an clear, removable archival sleeve with acid-free backing. Dust jacket now preserved in a removable, archival sleeve.
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