The Crazy Mountains                                         Alkyd

    This commissioned painting is the result of a trip to Montana to hunt and fly fish. When I flew out to Montana, my thought was to do a panoramic landscape with hunters, such as you often see in sporting galleries. However, after experiencing a variety of moments which made up the trip, I decided that a still life was the only way to picture these moments. The classic Parker shotgun, hunting jacket, Hungarian Partridge, print of a partridge flying, and the device of a painting within a painting of my client hunting, told the story of the hunting aspect of the trip. To show the fly fishing side, I painted my own fly rod, and the Trude fly that I used to catch several beautiful Cutthroat Trout on the Bolder River. The rather intricate painting took four months to complete.
    I decided on the title, The Crazy Mountains, because they are shown in the painting within a painting, and I was intrigued by the story of how these mountains got their name. A pioneer woman, in seeing these mountains as a further obstacle to cross, lost her mind and wandered off into the wilderness. She was never seen again.
    This painting is available as a signed and numbered reproduction while quantities last.

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