Everyday Anchorage: Duke Russell + Ward Wells 

Opening May 1, 2026
Brian E Davies Chugach Gallery

Experience Anchorage through different eras in the work of painter Duke Russell and photographer Ward Wells (1920–1982). Russell’s paintings from the past three decades in conversation with Wells’s commercial and studio photographs from the late 1940s through the 1970s show how both artists celebrate weird and wonderful aspects of Anchorage life, including people, architecture, parks, and a changing landscape influenced by tourism, development, and urban growth.