David Rosenthal the Artist

David Rosenthal is known as an Arctic Painter, Arctic Artist and an Antarctic Artist, because he loves ice. He has been lured to cold climates regularly to record snow, ice, and landscapes. Davids paintings of glaciers and icebergs are astoundingly realistic and at the same ethereal at the same time. However his work also includes much more than ice, icebergs and glaciers.. Cordova, Alaska is the place David Rosenthal calls home. As an artist & art teacher David has taught and continues to teach many students in Alaska. While teaching art in Alaska, David has instructed students and artist in many pragrams including the Alaska Artists in the Schools Program, Prince William Sound Community College and University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions. Alaskan artist David Rosenthal makes it a priority to travel around Alaska as much as possible to continue to capture the incredible beauty in his artwork of Alaska.

Having spent over sixty months on the Ice, including four austral winters and six austral summers, David became an Antarctic artist and has created art images from a large variety of places in every season. David has completed paintings of the antarctic landscape from all across Antarctica. Time in Antarctica included travel as a participant in the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program during a summer and a winter at McMurdo Station as well as most of a winter at Palmer Station. David has also worked for the NSF contractor for two winters and four summers in various job capacities as a way to spend time and become familiar with the landscape.

David Rosenthal has created a large body of fine art in thousands of drawings, watercolor studies, hundreds of oil painting studies and full size landscape oil paintings from the Antarctic, the Arctic, Greenland Coast, Greenland Ice Cap, Alaska, the Southwest, and the East coast. The painting in this gallery is work from around the world.

Rosenthal's work also includes many water colors, oil paintings, sketches and small studies. The paintings seem to magically reflect the intensity of nature's colors and the atmospheric phenomena that David witnesses. The images in these galleries have been created during his travels from 1977 to the present 2014.

This photograph shows David Rosenthal the artist sketching while skating at Sheridan Glacier near Cordova, Alaska.

Recent News!

Good News for future travel - David just got word that I will be the Artist in Residence in Denali Park during the summer of 2015. This will be a great opportunity to see Denali and the surrounding park under many different weather conditions and changing light.