Unveiling

The last time Duke Russell saw his painting Crossroads in person, it was in 2002 on the day he carried it into Anchorage Correctional Complex and installed it in an employee dining room. One jailhouse worker, Russell recalls, scowled and said the painting was the ugliest hed ever seen. Russell kept his mouth shut. He figures his commissionabout $4,000was merely table scraps compared to …