PEACE IN THE VALLEY - 18" x 24" Oil on Linen $3,800. An edition 25, 18" x 24" canvas prints available. $300.
"In these two great movements in American history, exploration and national expansion, a gathering of colorful and eccentric men.... played a decisive part. They were the mountain men-the bold adventures who sought individual freedom and financial reward in the beaver streams of the Rocky Mountains."
Robert M. Utley from the introduction to A LIFE WILD AND PERILOUS
DAYDREAM - 8" x 8". A young Indian woman is dressed for a special event. Pausing for a moment in the summer sun, she allows herself one short daydream. Sold. Edition of 25 canvas prints available $125
UNWELCOME NEWS - Pencil on toned paper. A trapper reacts to some news that he doesen't want to hear. As he ponders his response, he knows the mountains don't care. He will have to deal with the unwelcome news. Available
Red Bellied Woodpecker - Sold - Oil on panel $500
Alone With Her Thoughts 11" x 14 1/2" Oil on panel. $1,500 Available -
A southern plains woman dressed in a deer hide dress decorated with beads and paint rides alone in a rare free moment, alone with her thoughts.
Respected Among the Crow
9" x 12" Oil on Linen
Available at The Studio Gallery, Three Forks, Montana. $1500 info at www.kraeartworks.com
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 at The Studio Gallery in Three Forks, MT. Limited edition prints available $175 More info at www.kraeartworks.com
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
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
Bluebird - 5" x 7" sold. -
When God had made a host of them,
One little flower still lacked a stem
To hold its blossom blue;
So into it He breathed a song,
And suddenly, with petals strong
As wings, away it flew.
John Tabb, The Bluebird
Weighing His Options Pencil on Bristol board. Sold
The Stolen Birchbark 7" x 9" Oil on panel $750 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
$1600
Inquire at The Studio Gallery, Three Forks, Montana
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
$4500.
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.
Original Available at The Studio Gallery in Three Forks, MT. More info at www.kraeartworks.com Edition of 25 limited edition canvas prints. $250
Cautious Approach - 5" x 7" Oil on Panel - SOLD- Private collection, Ohio
Amanda's Bouquet - Sold
