THE GHOST OF HOOKER SWAMP -- Many years ago, after the reintroduction of deer in northern Missouri, where I grew up, had resulted in the opening of deer season, there was a timbered creek bottom along Shoal Creek known locally as Hooker Swamp. It was hard to get to, swampy, and perfect. Legend had it that in those woods there lived a buck that hunters only got a glimpse of and no one was able to kill. Here's to those that tried and to the monarch of the backwoods who never slipped up.
7" x 9" SOLD Signed open edition prints available $40
" I defy the annals of chivalry to furnish the record of a life more wild and perilous than that of a Rocky Mountain trapper." Francis Parkman - Normally part of a brigade or small group, this mountaineer finds himself alone in Crow country. Here, from a rise, he carefully scans the valley bellow before heading down river. 13" x 18" Oil on panel. Available. $2500 Limited edition prints available $175
MR. OCTOBER Oil on panel
7" x 5" SOLD
- Open edition of paper giclee prints available. $40
The Mountain Men of the early 19th century moved freely across a vast mountain wilderness in search of beaver. As historian Robert Utley has said," What they learned and how they mapped the west did not remain locked in their minds. It began to seep out in their own time and cascaded forth as the continent was conquered." Here two trappers and their pack horses pass through an aspen grove on one of those "Glory Days."
Sold at the Museum of the Mountain Men's Western Art and Wine Auction July 9th, 2020. Private collection - Wyoming. info@mmmuseum.com limited edition of 25 Canvas Prints are available. $125
12" x 9" Oil on Linen. Sold at History Meets The Arts, in Gettysburg PA. Lord Nelson's Gallery.
Winter Journey 12" x 7" Oil on Panel
Sold at History Meets The Arts , Lord Nelson's Gallery.
Private Collection Maryland 25 Limited Edition Canvas giclee's $100
Riding With the Cold Maker 13" x 10" Oil on Panel
Detail - Riding with the Cold Maker
One of Ashley's Hundred - Pencil on Bristol board. 6" x 6". (11" x 11"framed ) SOLD
The enterprise that eventually came to be known as the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1822 by William Ashley and Andrew Henry. The original hires would be know to history as "Ashley's One Hundred". Among the group were Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger and others who in little more than a decade became legendary as "mountain men". Their " knowledge and experience of the Trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions." * Ashleys men would see the west in it's wildest, most grand form, and would become the point men, the advance guard in the opening of the west.
* A Life Wild and Perilous, Robert M. Utley
Framed
Weighing His Options Pencil on Bristol board. Sold
The Stolen Birchbark 7" x 9" Oil on panel $800 Contact Cherry's Art 311 S. Main Steet • Carthage, MO 64836 417-358-2707
The Story Teller 6" x 6" Oil on Panel, Sold
at Lord Nelson's Gallery during History Meets The Arts June 9,10, 2017 www.lordnelson'sgallery.com
Fixing To Leave Early
11" x 14" Oil On Panel
$1700
Inquire at Cherry's Art, 311 S. Main Steet • Carthage, MO 64836
417 358 2707
SOLD at Montana Miniatures Show. Here I Stand
9" x 12 " Oil On Linen - Private Collection Montana
Medicine Crow - Oil on Linen. Sold, Private Collection Colorado
Arkansas River Trapper 18" x 24" Oil on Panel
$4900. Available.
Working in small brigades and sometimes on their own hook in the wildest areas of the continent, trappers in the early 19th century lived a perilous existence. This trapper has just stretched a beaver on a willow hoop. His wolf eared cap is made of buckskin as is his jacket and leggings. As the sun sets, he takes a last look around before heading to
camp. Edition of 25 limited edition canvas prints. $250
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Cautious Approach - 5" x 7" Oil on Panel - SOLD- Private collection, Ohio
Amanda's Bouquet - Sold
