{"id":3810,"date":"2015-01-14T10:17:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2015-01-14T10:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:17:41","slug":"wyoming-paintings-before-during-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/2015\/01\/14\/wyoming-paintings-before-during-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming: Paintings Before, During and After"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in September Anne and I went to Jackson Hole. I gave workshop, we explored galleries, and spent a week doing art. I reported on it in an earlier blog<\/a>. Here are\u00a0the paintings produced before the trip (the Indians), during the time there (the equestrians), and from photos afterward (the landscapes).<\/p>\n

\"Blues-in-Wyoming\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Blues in Wyoming, acrylic, 44×44<\/a><\/h6>\n

Starting in the middle, here’s a piece painted in Marty Peet’s Wyoming studio. It’s from an historical black and white photo I’d come across. My colors just sort of showed up, wild and fenceless, like the landscape.<\/p>\n

\"Best-Friends-660\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Friends, acrylic, 42×28<\/a><\/h6>\n

Here’s another taken from an historical black and white. I found the photo in a magazine in the Peet’s apartment (where we stayed). Sorry I didn’t note the identity of the person, an early resident of note in the area.<\/p>\n

\"Red-Chief-in-situ\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Red Chief, acrylic, 26×20<\/a><\/h6>\n

This and the following are pieces I painted in preparation for the trip. It’s a subject and style I’d often thought I’d like to explore, and here was reason. Their frames I made of\u00a0reclaimed wood, from an old barn in Tennessee. I’m showing the pieces here hanging\u00a0in our house, complete with extraneous artifacts we’ve collected\u00a0from everywhere.<\/p>\n

\"Daytime-Dreams-in-situ\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Daytime Dreams, acrylic, 32×24<\/a><\/h6>\n

Maybe it’s my\u00a0fascination with\u00a0this land’s original dwellers. Maybe it’s the the claim of my parents that I share a smidgen of Cherokee blood . . . from both sides. Maybe it’s my admiration for 19th century photographer Edward Curtis and\u00a0his life work to document these people before their ways\u00a0would be gone. Those photos, of course, are all black and white, or soft sepia. I add color, sometimes with dynamic departure from what would have really been. And why not, by now it’s an imaginary world we’re reconstructing.<\/p>\n

\"Hopi-Girl-in-situ\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hopi Girl, acrylic, 32×24<\/a><\/h6>\n

Here’s another from an Edward Curtis photo. All the girls in this tribe at this period wore their hair this way. Perhaps it’s a style that will return. (Didn’t Princess Leah wear hers like this, in a galaxy far away?)<\/p>\n

\"Field-of-Dreams\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Field of Dreams, oil,16×16<\/a><\/h6>\n

It was back home in the studio where I painted a few landscapes\u00a0from photos taken on location. The colors, the textures, and the grand expanse of it all are hard to capture on a small canvas . . . so one INTERPRETS.<\/p>\n

\"Fence-in-a-Field\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Fence in a Field, oil,\u00a031×39.\u00a0For larger, click here, then on that picture.<\/a><\/h6>\n

Speaking of interpreting, as I was painting along on this one, and starting to get overwhelmed with the detail,\u00a0I\u00a0literally asked God how He would do all the wild brush in the foreground. What I got was, “Throw paint; that’s what I do.” Maybe it’s because of that it’s become one of my personal favorites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Lake-Near-Wilson\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lake Near Wilson, oil, 24×18<\/a><\/h6>\n

The town of Wilson is just next to Jackson Hole, both of which are nestled just beneath the Grand Tetons. Ashley Lund, the friend who purchased this one, wrote the wonderful tribute quoted in a\u00a0Blank Slate<\/em>, “Spiritual Homesteading.”<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Land-loving-Sun-in-situ\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Land Loving Sun, oil, 12×16<\/a><\/h6>\n

Finally, one more, again in situ<\/em>, placed as it was at\u00a0this moment over a small library of small (relic) books. Could look good anywhere, like at your house. Same goes for all on this blog (except one), and for most on the website. Either way, we hope you enjoy these.<\/p>\n

___________________<\/p>\n

Next, Oregon calls once again. For the rest of this month we’ll be in the rain and the wild of yet another part of this beautiful world. We’ll be indoors mostly, making art, living life. \u00a0 Live yours, too, artfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was sort of a pilgrimage back to the roots of my parents. Here are the paintings it inspired. Pause a moment and let them take you away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}