Yuttaa

This painting was inspired on a trip down into the San Raphael Swell, Buckhorn Draw, south of my home. In the evening hours as the shadows grew long and the growing silence surrounded me in this vast country, my mind's eye pictured a party of Ute Native Americans riding along the darkening ridge just as they might have more than a century before. The mountain behind them is Assembly Hall Peak, aka "The Two Sentries" by local ranchers because of the shadows near the top that appear to be two guards keeping watch over the valley below and the party of Utes as they pass through. Prints available. See listing in Western category as well.