This drawing depicts the Rowan Bay logging camp waterfront, on Kuiu Island in the Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska not far from Sitka. Rain forest of huge evergreen trees. The drawing was done in Anchorage, Alaska following a month in the Rowan Bay logging camp as an "Artist in the School" in the small one-room schoolhouse. The image is from other sketches and drawings and paintings made while at Rowan Bay. The large margins around the landscape drawing are "toned-down" with graphite. The design composition -- with large margins around the landscape image -- suggest that the image may have been intended as a study for a woodcut print image -- but the woodcut never happened. Of interest: "this island is named for the Kuiu Kwan Tlingit people whose principle village was in Tebenkof Bay (just below Rowan Bay). Almost the entire village was wiped out by small pox..." Source: Goldschmidt and Haas 1948-1998, quoted in Southeast Alaska Conservation Assessment, Chapter 4.16.