"AUTUMN RIVALS"BY JOHN A. MORROW Date of Issue - December 17, 2005 Number in Edition - 750 Artist's Proofs - 50 Framed Size - 16 x 20 Paper - Epson Archival matte Printed by HMS Fine Art Giclee Print with pigmented Inks It was in the fall, sometime in the early 1980's. I was at Blue Mountain Lake photographing a drake wood duck as he swam in front of a brightly foliaged maple tree. I was intrigued by the competition between the the trees and the duck for their spectacular display of color. I began working on the painting a few weeks later, I started with the background and decided to get more reference before doing the detail on the duck. I was teaching art at the time and one of my students was a hunter and told me that if he got a drake wood duck he would give it to me to have it mounted. I put the painting on the back burner and went on to another piece. It wasn't until the following fall that he brought in a drake and told me it flew into his car windshield. It was a few years later when I got the stuffed bird back from the taxidermist. Over the following years I would work on the painting for a few hours at a time then put it away not getting back to it for a year or more. I finally finished it in December of 2005 |
"AUTUMN RIVALS"
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Limited Edition 16X20 Print $100 |
8x10 Souvenir print Matted
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