Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
81.01.012
Accession#:
81.01
Credit Line:
Museum Purchase.
Object Name:
Painting
Title:
Douglas Fire
Artist — Creator:
Virginia Eggert
Date:
1979
Year Range from:
1975
Year Range to:
1980
Description:
Several houses on fire in right center of composition. One firefighter stands on porch roof of one building directing hose in a window. On ground two others assist. Three figures look on while another walks away. In left foreground four more figures observe from box platform of wood planks. Road passes between pump station and burning houses bordered by trees & shrubs. Road and telephone line (two poles visible) angles left, then curves right. Body of water is visible with blue mountains in distance through smoke and flames. Sky is blue with white clouds. Simple green mat. Wood frame with Plexiglas. CBJ Property #04534.
Inscription: "Virginia Eggert '79" in orange—brown paint on bottom right.
Notes:
Acquired by Juneau Centennial Committee. Painting shows a scene of Douglas fire with Gastineau Channel and Mount Roberts in background.
Search Terms:
Emergency Service
Douglas
Fire
Watercolor
Painting
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