A marine, landscape and portrait painter as well as combat artist during World War II, Edmond J. Fitzgerald was born in Seattle in 1912, one of seven children. He graduated from the California School of Fine Arts where he was a student of Lee Randolph. At age nineteen, Fitzgerald was part of the U.S. Geological Survey Expedition to Alaska, and was so taken with the geography, he returned annually for the next ten years, sometimes in the company of Eustace Ziegler "who influenced him more than any other artist." (Kollar, 2) Ziegler and Fitzgerald had nearby studios on Pier 9 in Seattle on the waterfront. Another good friend and painting companion was Eric Johanson, with whom he painted near Index, Washington on the Skyhomis...