News from the studio
Summer Events, 2012
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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.
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Oil on linen 24"x18" | | Heading Home
Oil on linen 14"x11" |
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Season of the Golden Grass Oil on linen 11"x14"
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Ready for Council Oil on linen 9"x12"
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The Calm of Day's End Oil on linen 12"x16"
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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
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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?
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| 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. |
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