Ted Lambert Paintings

Ted Lambert (1905-1960) is regarded as one of the premier Alaska artists, a true pioneer. Born in 1905, and raised in the Chicago area, Lambert moved to Alaska in 1925 and went to work as a miner near McCarthy. He held several jobs, predominantly working at a copper mine and mushing dogs -- first for adventure, and then as a mail carrier.

Lambert left Alaska in 1931 to study art for a year at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, then moved to Seattle, where he began a mentorship under Eustace Ziegler, with whom he traveled throughout Alaska and painted. Eventually Lambert settled down in Fairbanks, where he stayed for twenty years and solidified his reputation as a painter and an artist.

Tragically, in 1960 he disappeared from the remote cabin he was living in at Bristol Bay. No trace of his body was ever found, but among the effects rescued from his last home was a memoir of his early days in Alaska. These memoirs reveal Lambert to be a keen and intelligent observer and relay the adventure story of a young man who would become one of Alaska’s most important artists.

Ted Lambert

Ted Lambert

Ted Lambert

Ted Lambert

Ted Lambert

Ted Lambert

Now Playing On the Video Bar: Bluesman Magic Sam

Mississippi born and Chicago based, Samuel Magic Sam Gene Maghett (February 14, 1937 – December 1, 1969) was one of the leading lights of the second generation of Post-World War II Chicago blues artists. He was a contemporary of Buddy Guy, Otis Rush and Junior Wells. His 1967 Demark Album West Side Soul is considered one of the top blues albums of all time.

After moving to Chicago in 1950, his guitar playing earned bookings at blues clubs in Chicago's West Side. Sam recorded for Cobra Records from 1957-59, recording singles, including All Your Love and Easy Baby. They did not appear on any record charts, yet they had a profound influence, far beyond Chicago's guitarists and singers. Together with recordings by Otis Rush and Buddy Guy (also Cobra artists), they made a manifesto for a new kind of blues.

His guitar style, vocals, and songwriting ability have inspired and influenced many blues musicians ever since. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues dedicates the band's performance of Sweet Home Chicago to the "late, great Magic Sam".

The stage name, Magic Sam, was devised by Sam's bass player and childhood friend Mack Thompson, at Sam's first recording session for Cobra, from an approximation of "Maghett Sam". The name Sam was using at the time, Good Rocking Sam, was already being used by another artist.

One of the all-time electric blues greats -- Magic Sam.