36" x 28"
Arizona
Celebrating Spring
28" x 22" Oil
Winter Textural Debut
20" x 20" Oil on canvas
Gilded Evening
24" x 54" Oil on Canvas $54,000 Following a monsoon shower, the intensity of the monuments at sunset causes an incredible gilded and golden light reminding me of a highly polished 24 karat gold.
Texture of the Monsoon
8" x 16" This painting was a featured work at the 2015 Quest for the West Show and Sale at the Eiteljog Museum. The Mittens of Monument Valley stand the test of time and Mother Nature as a dust and wind storm as it starts to travel across the desert floor during the...
Spring at the Old Pendley Place
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
Study: Mummy Cave Ruins
8" x 10"
Palo Verde Glow
28" x 28"
Transitions
8" x 16" Oil on Canvas Board
Through the Ages
36" x 36"
Spring Comes to Hidden Valley
20" x 20" Oil on Canvas Private Collection
Creekside Discovery
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas
First Touch of Winter
28" x 54" Oil on Canvas Sedona has been my home for 35 years, and I have yet to grow tired of the beauty that surrounds me there. First Touch of Winter was painted when the first snow of the season dotted the tops of the cliffs. As the storm passed, the evening light...
Display of Defiance
28" x 28" Oil on Canvas I painted this work over several early mornings in late June of 2012, near the base of Courthouse Rock in Sedona. The distant cliffs are seen in blue silhouette. Featured in the foreground are spectacular blooming Yuccas, common in the sandy...
Hillside Hollyhocks
28" x 22" This work was featured in the West Select, A New Western Classic show and Sale at Steele Gallery from October 23,- November 20, 2011.
The Arborist’s Reward
28" x 28" This painting was awarded with the Best Painting Award at the 2010 Quest for the West show and Sale. I have always been fascinated by the arborists’ craft, especially with regard to apple trees. This ancient agricultural art reveals manicured old wood...
Passing Levity
12" x 10" Oil on Canvas Board
Deliquescence
36" x 28" This painting holds a special place for me, as it was one of the first paintings of mine to be seen at The National Cowboy Museum’s Prix de West. The title is derived from the fact that while I was painting this scene, on location, the warming of the day...
The Mittens
30" x 50" Oil on Canvas I remember the magic I felt in 1960, at age 10, when on a summer vacation road trip (without air-conditioning) my parents took us to Monument Valley. I will never forget my first greeting by the gigantic buttes of red sandstone known as the...
Sedona Stock Tank
36" x 36"
Spring Arrars
Summer Waters of Oak Creek
28" x 22" This painting is currently at Garland's Collector Room in Sedona, Arizona located in the Garland's building on Hwy. 179. $12,000
Sunset Over Mingus
5" x 14" Oil on Canvas Board This painting was featured in the 2007 Eiteljorg Museum Quest for the West Show and Sale.
Tincture of the Spring
40" x 40"
Red Rock Crossing
36" x 36"
Fence Line Roses
20" x 16" Artists throughout history have turned to scenes right out their backdoor for inspiration. I was enticed by the fragrance and colors of the large profusion of rose blossoms along this fence line, in my own backyard, this past spring. Sometimes it is the...
Vicissitude
30" x 48" Sedona has uniquely beautiful landscape vistas, containing many species of flora. Painting absorbs me totally, body and soul, and I become very attached to the views and the plants that I am painting. I have always been drawn to the Sedona yuccas and each...
Monsoon Rain for Painted Desert
40" x 60" Because a good portion of my family is in Farmington, NM, I have traveled across the Painted Desert countless times and I never fail to be impressed by its incredible beauty. During the monsoon season the storms over the desert floor are simply spectacular....
October Evening in Canyon de Celly
30" x 36"
Vermilion Cliffs
48" x 48" Oil on Canvas This work now hangs in the halls of Henderson Fine Arts Building at San Juan College in Farmington, NM
Quiet Hour
16" x 12" Oil on Canvas Board $1500
Dust Devils
18" x 18" Oil
Golden Precipice
60" x 90" Oil
Quiet Luxury of Autumn
28" x 28"
Creekside Splendor
48" x 40" Oil
Nativity of Blessed Virgin Mary Chapel: Nocturne
30” x 24” Oil on Canvas Over the years, this chapel has appeared in several of my paintings. I enjoy the unique melding of traditional architecture with a uniquely Flagstaff approach; utilizing local stone, the bell tower and accents are rendered in pink. It seems to...
Illimitable
48” x 36” Oil on Canvas This view is from a few miles south of Cameron, where the old trading post stands near the east side of Grand Canyon. In this painting I was looking east toward the great landscape of the Navajo Nation and the valley of the Little Colorado...
Lightning Rock
48" x 48" Oil on Canvas
Enduring Espial
36” x 48” Oil on Canvas During the mid-1990’s I had the endurance and strength to frequently paint large canvases outdoors. This Monument Valley scene is an excellent example of that period of my work. Looking to the west, I painted Camel Butte, the Thumb, and the...
Road to Monument Valley
16 " x 16" Oil on Canvas
Prismatic Display
30" x 24" Oil on Canvas
Firehouse in March
40" x 40" Oil
View From Midgley Bridge – Sedona
40" x 40"
Guardians of the Switchbacks
40” x 70” Oil on Canvas This is the jaw-dropping view that one sees at the top of the switchbacks, on Highway 89A, as you descend south into Oak Creek Canyon and Sedona. In the late 1980’s my paintings experienced a softening of the palette. I now look back to those...
Antelope House Ruins Overlook
36" x 48" Oil on Canvas $12,000 or MAKE AN OFFER
Crimson Shadows
24" x 36" Oil on Canvas For the most part, all of my plein air paintings until the 1980’s were smaller in size. As I became more aware of my own skills and instinctively realized my brain would not learn new skills if not forced into new thinking, I decided that the...
