The Daily Alaska Empire

SOUTH AMERICA CALLING NOTED ALASKA ARTISTS

Nina and Jo Crumrine Sailing Soon on Sketching and Painting Trip

New fields to conquer are calling Nina and Jo Crumrine, Juneau's mother-and-daughter painting and sketching team, to South America, where they've heard there is 'a mountain even higher than Mount McKinley.'

Mrs. Crumrine and 21-year-old Jo claim Juneau is "home" to them, but on October 6 they're forsaking Alaska for the new adventures of the southern continent. For the past several years they have travelled throughout the Territory, recording faces and scenes in scores of Eskimo and Indian villages, on remote islands and isolated settlements in the Arctic winterland.

Many of their paintings hang in Juneau hotels, private residences and in the Territorial Museum; others are to be found in almost every Alaskan city.

But now, the Crumrines have seen Alaska—and summer is coming in Santiago, where the seasons are reversed. They plan to travel down the west coast of South America and return on the east side of the continent, perhaps sketching their way through the Caribbean, thence to Mexico City and then . . . well, who knows where artists will go next?

Be that as it may, the Crumrines are certain of one thing:

"We'll be coming back to Juneau some day."

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