{{short description|American artist}} '''Terry Pyles''' is an Alaskan artist whose work includes depictions of the sights and scenery in the state.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rasmuson.org/enjoy-cat/art-collection/terry-pyles/|title=Terry Pyles}}</ref> He makes sculptures and paints.
Pyles painted a still life depicting fellow artist Dave Rubin surrounded by a bounty of Alaskan fish after being inspired by Alejandro de Loarte’s painting "The Kitchen" (1610) at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sitkaharborguide.com/terry-pyles-abundant-depth-an-artists-profile/|title=Terry Pyles: Abundant Depth | Sitka Harbor Guide}}</ref> The Rasmuson Foundation funded the acquisition of one of his paintings to donate it to a museum in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sitnews.us/0604news/061206/061204_pyles_painting.html|title=SitNews - Ketchikan Museums Acquires Terry Pyles Painting|website=www.sitnews.us}}</ref>
His public sculptures include mosaic tile toppers on dock pilings that were inspired by architecture in Barcelona.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UfjuKBo0D-0C&q=terry+pyles&pg=PA43|title=Alaska's Inside Passage|first=Ann|last=Chandonnet|date=May 5, 2009|publisher=Fodor's Travel Publications|isbn=9781400009022|via=Google Books}}</ref> They were made in collaboration with Dave Rubin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ketchikanstories.com/|title=Ketchikan Story Project|website=ketchikanstories.com}}</ref> He created an NOAA fisheries poster with Ray Troll.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dk0YAQAAIAAJ&q=terry+pyles|title=Managing Our Nation's Fisheries: Past, Present, and Future : Proceedings of a Conference on Fisheries Management in the United States, Held in Washington, D.C., USA, November 13-15, 2003|date=May 5, 2004|publisher=NPFMC|via=Google Books}}</ref> He and Kroll also collaborated on an interactive piece titled Spawn-O-Rama based on Plinko at the Sitka Sound Science Center.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.krbd.org/2013/10/21/troll-pyles-collaborate-to-make-spawn-o-rama/|title=Troll, Pyles collaborate to make 'Spawn-O-Rama'|date=October 21, 2013}}</ref>
Pyles has collaborated with fellow Ketchikan artist Ray Troll.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHRtdqlM4LYC&q=terry+pyles&pg=PT25|title=Rapture of the Deep: The Art of Ray Troll|first=Ray|last=Troll|date=May 5, 2004|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520239470|via=Google Books}}</ref> Pyles also created a salmon sculpture on Ketchikan Creek to replace a wooden one by local carver Jones Yeltatzie (born 1897), a Haida, that had deteriorated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.krbd.org/2013/07/08/new-salmon-sculpture-honors-original-artist/|title=New salmon sculpture honors original artist|date=July 9, 2013}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://vimeo.com/156650261 Short video clip about Pyles] on Vimeo *[http://www.6vitesse-on-tour.com/interviews/terry-pyles-alaska/?lang=en Interview with Pyles]
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