2013 Giclees are now available!
Thank you to everyone who entered the 2013 giclee poll, the results are in: The winners are Her Husband’s Shirt, Master of His Land, War Party Rides. Each archival-quality giclee on canvas comes numbered, signed, and with a certificate of authenticity. Her Husband’s Shirt Three sizes available: 20″ X 20″, 28″ X 28″, 36″ X [...]
Show preview: Presenting “Two Souls, One Spirit”
UPDATE (6/12): Two Souls, One Spirit will soon be available as a fine art giclee print UPDATE (5/12): Two Souls, One Spirit has been sold. My newest painting, Two Souls, One Spirit is ready for the Celebration of Fine Art Show Two Souls, One Spirit, oil on canvas, 36″ x 36″ Romantic new subject matter [...]
Phippen Show Preview: The Chief’s New Gun
Update April 12, 2011: Thank you for your interest in this painting. The Chief’s New Gun has been SOLD. My newest painting, The Chief’s New Gun depicts a late-1860s Lakota tribal leader displaying a proud acquisition: his new Sharps rifle Composition There are three key compositional elements to this painting: Element #1: Contour and lighting [...]
Display of Eminence sells at the Mountain Oyster show
Painting’s development process shared This year, at the 41st annual Contemporary Western Art Show held by Tucson’s Mountain Oyster Club, I had the pleasure of visiting with Art and Peggy Hittner, the eventual buyers of Display of Eminence. Before we met face-to-face, we exchanged emails about the painting. The Hittners inquired about all facets of [...]
An interview with the owner of Encounter with the Teton Sioux
One man’s vision to chronicle the Lewis and Clark expedition with fine art images A private collector recently commissioned me to develop Encounter with the Teton Sioux, September 25, 1804 to be included in a Tucson Museum of Art exhibition devoted to fine art that chronicles the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806 My painting [...]
Presenting: Encounter with the Teton Sioux
Sharing with you a preview of my recent painting commission I recently completed a commissioned work that will be on exhibit at the Tucson Museum of Art from October 23, 2010 to January 23, 2011 as part of a private collection of artwork devoted to chronicling the historic Lewis and Clark expedition. A pivotal rendezvous: [...]
Prayers of the Shaman added to the permanent collection of the Booth Western Art Museum
Although I immerse myself in all the work I do, Prayers of the Shaman is perhaps my most personal painting to date. I created Prayers in 2009 while my mother was undergoing treatment for cancer. I began to reflect upon how regardless of era or location, the emotions of love, worry, and hope were universal. Prayers of the Shaman depicts a Lakota holy man performing a healing ceremony to care for an ill tribe member. Concerned family and tribe members wait outside with anticipation. Although settings may be different, this scene has been, and will continue to be, replayed millions of times…Read More…
Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Chief
Another of the pieces from Portraits of Honor, my August 5, 2010 one-man show at Legacy Gallery Oglala Lakota (~1819-1909) “I was born a Lakota and I shall die a Lakota. Before the white man came to our country, the Lakotas were a free people. They made their own laws and governed themselves as it [...]
Sitting Bull: Tatanka-Iyotanka
One of the pieces from my recent Legacy Gallery show, Portraits of Honor Hunkpapa Lakota Chief (1831 – 1890) “What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?” Is [...]
