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Dayton, WA
$325.00
Title
Chief Joseph Range
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
Landscapes, like people, have personalities.
Some are cool and aloof, austere, but not unfriendly.
Others are exuberant, surrounding the visitor with rolling hills carpeted with wildflowers.
When you walk through the landscapes, you wonder about who walked on the ground before you, what happened there, what the trees and meadows and mountains have seen.
So it is when you stroll or hike through the landscape of the artwork, Chief Joseph Range. Located near Joseph, OR, in the Wallowa Valley, this 148 acres is the ancestral land of the Nez Perce people, who were pushed out and sent away from their homeland in the latter mid-19th century.
This is the place where Old Chief Joseph and later Young Chief Joseph brought their band of people for summer living. It is in the region where Young Chief Joseph literally begged for a small plot of his own on which to live, and was refused.
And now, it is back in the hands of the Nez Perce people, who purchased the land in 2020.
You can walk through it. There are trails winding their way through the grassy fields, with a minimalism of development so that you can feel the silence, hear the distant voices that once were here.
This land’s personality is contemplative, thoughtful, almost brooding. The mountains in the background rise high and precipitate, standing as protective sentinels. They watch. They see. They remember.
It is a silent place that invites us, as visitors here, to be silent as well. And when we do so, we can think, contemplate, wonder; we can ponder upon humankind and how we have the potential to be good, to do good, as well as to do the opposite: to grasp, to grab, to push others away so that we can have more.
It is a choice humanity grapples with in every generation, including this one’s. And the mountains, and the trees, and the meadows . . . they watch, and remember.
(A companion piece to Chief Joseph Range is Looking Toward Hurricane Valley, also on this site, by Steve Henderson.)
Featured in 31 Fine Art America groups, including Exclusive Feature Me.
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June 9th, 2021
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Port Orange, FL - United States
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups Special Features #19 promotion discussion. Please help your fellow artists by visiting and passing on the love to another artist in the the 1000 Views Group....L/F/Tw
Richardson, TX - United States
Gorgeous landscape painting Steve. Nominating for special feature on the 1000 view group. T/F
Piney Flats, TN - United States
Love this and all your wilderness paintings. Always reminding me of where I want to be.
San Pedro, CA - United States
A place like no other. Ok, that’s redundant, but in this case, true. Have not been back in many years. Outstanding creation.
Aberdeen, Ab - United Kingdom
Simply gorgeous real fine art, lovely to re visit your gallery, with kind regards G/OBT (soon the birch trees here will look just like the way you have painted, your eyes for trees and mountains see the same way as Scots eye's!)
Vancouver Island, BC - Canada
Love the loose paint strokes that capture the feel of the landscape so well...
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