Wyland Whale Mural, Anchorage, Alaska

On the east side of Town Square, on E Street, Anchorage, Alaska, you will see a huge whale mural, or Whaling Wall, which was painted freehand by sea-life artist Wyland in 1994. This is one of 84 such life-size ocean murals which Wyland had painted in cities throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

The famous artist, known only as Wyland, was born Robert Wyland in a Detroit suburb in 1956. He has overcome personal poverty and physical handicaps to paint these murals which are now seen by an estimated one billion people per year. Wyland's goal is to make people all over the world aware of the struggle of whales, dolphins and all ocean life.