" Alaska's Dancing Night Lights " Introduction: A Painting Sometime between 1932 and the mid 1950's, Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt Lambert painted the 'Aurora and Dogteam' highlighting the Alaska Northern Lights through a real-life observation. His personal experiences as a Freight Carrier and Musher was an inspiration for most of his completed art work. He was born and raised in Chicago and artistically trained at the Art Institute of Chicago before he moved to Alaska in 1925; then moved back to the lower-48 for Art Training. In 1932, upon moving back to Alaska and arriving in Fairbanks where he lived for 20 years painting the physical lifestyles by utilizing his skilled perception on the moody lands and all who traveled it; the natures grand vistas and delicate trails. Ted painted many popular visual arts. Mr. Lambert's early Alaskan-era paintings stemmed from his inspiration of the impressive people of Alaska, trappers and miners traveling t...
