DOWN FROM THE MUSSLESHELL 16 X 20 Oil on Panel -- On a bright fall morning after a fresh snow, a lone trapper leads his pack horse south towards where his companions are meeting up for the winter. Traveling alone is never a good idea in Crow country and this mountain man knows he will have to be vigilante if he makes it back to the brigade with his peltry in his possession.
He has tales to tell from up north, if he makes it,
“Down from the Musselshell.”
This is my entry for the 39th Bosque Art Classic in Clifton Texas. More info at [email protected]
MUTUAL SUPRISE - Traveling alone on a foggy fall morning, this woodsman notices a black bear materialize out of the mist just as the bear niotices hm. They will pass each other in silence, fade back into the fog, each having experienced, "mutual suprise." 12" x 16" Oil on panel. Available at Lord Nelson's Gallery, Getteysburg, PA . 717 334 7950 or www.lordnelsons.com
PEACE IN THE VALLEY - 18" x 24" Oil on Linen $3,800. An edition 25, 18" x 24" canvas prints available. $325.
"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 available at Venmo @Kyle-Carroll-Art
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 available at Venmo @Kyle-Carroll-Art
" 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. Original and an edition of 25
giclee prints avaiable . Limited edition prints $175 at Venmo @Kyle-Carroll-Art
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. [email protected] limited edition of 25 Canvas Prints are available. $125 available at Venmo @Kyle-Carroll-Art
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
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. $375 available at Venmo @Kyle-Carroll-Art