Painter David Rosenthal stands before a series of paintings of Childs Glacier outside of Cordova. Each painting captures the glacier during different time periods.
When painter David Rosenthal came to Alaska nearly 50 years ago, he was captivated by the expansive glory of the icy landscapes. Over his career he’s painted ice, snow and glaciers in Alaska, the North Pole, Greenland and even Antarctica, inadvertently capturing climate change in his brushstrokes.is a retrospective which places his paintings in the context of human-caused warming and glacial retreat, seamlessly blending science and art. It opens Friday, Nov.
He sat down with KTOO’s Anna Canny to talk about his experiences capturing the last remnants of Alaska’s glaciers.https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/02Rosenthal-two-way-.wavSo you’ve been a painter for decades, and you’ve always painted landscapes. But as this exhibit showcases, you have an affinity for icier landscapes. Can you kind of tell me how you found that focus?I grew up in Maine, the Ice Age was over.
David Rosenthal’s showcase of oil paintings features glaciers and ice fields from across Alaska and the globe So you’ve been painting these landscapes, obviously, for years, you’ve been painting ice for years.