Description

Elk Trio Surveying The Splendor of Their Valley

Years:
Painted: 1987 Published: 1988

Within a landscape of majestic proportions three elk pause, silently surveying their wilderness domain. We can easily imagine that only Indians, mountainmen and wildlife have ever traversed its secluded and pristine beauty. But these possibilities become insignificant in the presence of the mountain. Mute and seemingly eternal, it conveys to the surrounding terrain a sense of both beauty and supreme power. As we contemplate this scene we come to realize that man can best appreciate nature, and that its forces are beyond our understanding or ultimate control.