Leonard Sugden Schofield 'Alaska Shoreline Camp' circa 1899
5.5" x 7.5"
Watercolour
Prov: Kennedy Galleries, NY
 
The Pagurian Collection Doctor Leonard Sugden was born in Scotland came to Juneau as a practicing doctor on a whaling ship and worked in that capacity for the NWMP and served as a pilot during the gold rush around 1900. He was the inspiration for Robert Service’s poem, the Cremation of Sam McGee when Service heard of the story of Dr. Sugden hauling a corpse to Tagish and contacting the family in Tennessee to get permission to cremate the remains. He married in 1906 and moved to the Kluane area where he mined, hunted big game and bought a Prizma movie camera. With it he produced, in 1915, a film called The Lure of Alaska which played to rave reviews across America and Europe.
$800 each. Two Available