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News from the studio 
Summer Events, 2012 
 
Edition III
Stampede Western Invitational Exhibit and Sale
Greeley, CO - June 21-July 4   

 

Joe is looking forward to his first year of participation in this show. Here are the paintings he has submitted to the event.  Please visit the Stampede Western Invitational web site for more details.

Hard Memories
Oil on linen  
24"x18"
      
Heading Home
Oil on linen  
14"x11"
 


























Season of the Golden Grass
Oil on linen  
11"x14"

Ready for Council
Oil on linen  
9"x12"



 
The Calm of Day's End
Oil on linen  
12"x16"

West Lives on Galleries
Jackson, WY, July 4

The gallery officially launches its summer season with festivities hosting collectors and artists. 

                         A couple of new paintings to be included in these activities
 
Showdown
Showdown
Oil on canvas  
30"x48"

Artist's Statement 

Many of the forts and trading posts of the fur trade era employed hunters of wild game to provide meat to feed the workers and residents.  During the hunt, most anything could happen.  In this scene a buffalo has turned on its pursuer.  Will there be a winner in this showdown? 
 

 

Above the Roar of the Yellowstone
Above the Roar of the Yellowstone
Oil on linen
50"x46"

Artist's Statement 

In 1834 the fur trade was in full swing when, at Independence, Missouri, 20 year old Osborne Russell joined Nathaniel Wyeth's expedition bound for the Rocky Mountains and the mouth of the Columbia River.  Later, Russell joined a brigade led by Jim Bridger.  Russell spent the next nine years trapping and trading throughout the Rocky Mountains.

Fortunately for us, Russell was literate and maintained a detailed journal of his experiences and observations.  Even amid the dangers and often brutal circumstances the wilderness delivered, he was smitten by its beauty and penned this eloquent passage: "I almost wished I could spend the remainder of my days in a place like this where happiness and contentment seemed to reign in wild romantic splendor surrounded by majestic battlements which seemed to support the heavens and shut out all hostile intruders".  Russell wrote these words when he was in what later became Yellowstone National Park.  
Inspired by Russell's words, this painting depicts a trapper's expedition skirting the canyon of the Yellowstone River.  For early explorers and the mountain men, the Yellowstone/Jackson area became a crossroad of trails that led in virtually all directions. 

 

 

More Upcoming Shows

Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, NV - July 27-28
Miniatures by the Lake, Coeur d'Alene Galleries, Coeur d'Alene, ID - Sept. 14-29
Tesoro Cultural Center's Spanish Colonial & Western Art Market, Fort Restaurant,
                     Morrison, CO Sept 15-16

Settler's West Galleries, The Great American West Show, Tucson, AZ - Nov 16-17
Mountain Oyster Club Show
, Tucson, AZ - Nov 18 - Jan 4, 2013

We will keep you posted on the paintings for these shows as they are completed. 

 


 

Contact Information
Phone: 303-770-5639
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