Title: Untitled
Date: 1930-33 (estimate)
Medium: Oil
Method: Brush on Canvas
Description: Lady Portrait in dark background

Title: Untitled
Date: 1933
Medium: Oil
Method: Brush on Canvas
Description: Lady with Green Shoe

Title: Untitled
Date: 1933
Medium: Oil
Method: Brush on Masonite
Description: Portrait of a Young Lady; in green, red, light and black

Title: "Tommy Carries the Ball"
Date: 1930's (estimate)
Medium: Ink, Pencil, and Water Colors
Method: Ink Points as Outline and Shading
Description: Child and Adult with Football

Title: "Into the Open"
Date: Late 1960's
Medium: Ink
Method: Lithograph, 100th of 100
Description: Dog Sled and Driver Approaching in light and dark

Title: Untitled
Date: 1936
Medium: Ink
Method: Print of Sketch, distribution unknown
Description: Eskimo Man; in dark and light

Title: Untitled
Date: 1936
Medium: Ink
Method: Print of Sketch, distribution unknown
Description: Eskimo Woman with child; in dark and light

Title: "Andy and Panuck"
Date: Late 1930's (estimate)
Medium: Photography
Method: Pale Color Photograph
Description: Eskimo Boy and His Malemute

Title: "Stop Along the Trail"
Date: 1969
Medium: Oil
Method: Technique on Masonite
Description: Dog Sled On Mountains; in light blue

"Stop along the trail"
58 by 52 oil painting on masonite

This is a painting meant to depict the many beauties of' Alaska in winter. It is probably in springtime and much snow has fallen all over the country. In this particular area there was little or no wind after the last snowfall which occurred recently leaving the spruce boughs with their lovely decorative effect with mounds of snow. Against this foreground is a trapper or hunter going to or from his camp with a heavy loaded freighting sled. One of his sled dogs has tangled his harness so the team is stopped while the driver leans over to untangle it. In the background can be seen the area of the Melchina glacier, the high peaks growing lighter as they start to fade in the distance etched against the sky. Spruce trees nearby cast their shadows on the snowbank in dark patterns to contrast against the distant vista. Scenes like this are one of the many glories of living in Alaska.

Fred Machetanz