Trailside Galleries Newsletter-June 2019

Our summer season in Jackson Hole gets under way on June 17 with our annual High Country Summer show and sale. This show is one with wide collector appeal as the works curated for the event feature a variety of subjects and artistic styles. We have a number of new works from gallery favorites including Morgan Weistling, Robert Duncan, Z.S. Liang, Mian Situ, Jenness Cortez, Kathleen Dunphy, Bradley Schmehl and Lanny Grant among others. We hope you can join us for our Open House at the gallery on Thursday evening June 20.

Morgan Weistling, Marshal Adams, 1875, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches, $19,000 (Sold by Draw on June 20)

Robert Duncan, Along the River Trail, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, $32,000

Z.S. Liang Ridding the Earth of Evil Spirits oil on linen canvas 40 x 62 inches $60,000

Mian Situ, A Watchful Eye, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, $22,000

Additionally, we are pleased to have two featured showcases in June for Nicholas Coleman and Ross Buckland. Life in the Rockies highlights the latest studio paintings from Coleman, whose subjects include both western and wildlife art.

"I love painting the American west. I live in the foothills of the Wasatch Front and get to look across the valley to Utah Lake and the mountains beyond.

I'm treated with some of the most picturesque sunsets you’ll ever see, not to mention fantastic storm clouds that move in over our mountain range. I’ve studied the history of the American West, the turmoil, and the struggle for life. The work I pursue and the stories I tell in paint is an expression of my respect and reverence for my subject. I'm always at home wherever I am in the west." - Nicholas Coleman

Nicholas Coleman, Uninvited Guests, oil on linen mounted on board, 36 x 48 inches, $18,000

Ross Buckland, Smoke Break, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches, $5,200

"Not unlike today's cowboy artists, my personal input is perhaps influenced by my own flying experience mixed with a sentimental, nostalgic notion of aviation's adventurous past. It is one of the very few of man's endeavors where, through the passing of time, the hardships of freezing temperatures, black flies and mosquitoes, impossible weather and moments of sheer terror have somehow become 'the good old days’. Ross Buckland

Jenness Cortez, The Sentry acrylic on mahogany board 13 x 15 inches $14,000

"Given the many western subjects I have painted in recent years, this new grouping of wildlife paintings may surprise some collectors, but this recent work is actually a return to my first love. I’ve always painted animals. In fact, growing up in rural Indiana, the very first paintings I sold (at age 15) were conformation portraits of blue ribbon bulls. Years later the New York State Museum commissioned me to create a series of paintings depicting the endangered species of the Adirondack Mountains for its permanent collection and I spent decades chronicling the performances and conformation of famous thoroughbred racehorses.

From Civil War and military art to nature, animals, sailing, trains, railroading and Native Americans, Bradley Schmehl has been painting historical and contemporary scenes for over thirty years. His art flows from his passion for history and the people that have struggled and worked to realize the progress of modern civilization. Bradley Schmehl

Bradley Schmehl, Glory Cloud, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, $8,000