Mountain Cowboy Yellow Slicker
I think every western photorealist painter in twenty states from Texas to Montana , California to Kansas , did the obligatory " Cowboy In A Yellow Slicker " painting at some point.
Mike Poulsen of Cody painted this scene , almost point for point, grain for grain, adding a few things like an axe and a knotted rope. He got thousands for his oil painting. I got $ 50 from him.
The cowboy is Al Craig , of Kimberley British Columia Canada working for Crossed Sabers Ranch up in Wapiti. The scene was photographed in the greatest hunting camp in the mountains, the old Billy Howell camp on Mountain Creek adjacent to the eastern boundary of Yellowstone Park on the far side of Eagle Creek and Fishhawk Creek. I worked in that camp one season for my old friend Rich Marta, CS manager, and Bert Bell was the outfitter. It was 1976 and the place was thick with grizzlies. Cody character Alan becker and I were bear bait, staying in camp when noone else was there besides our usual duties ( I made about 15-20 packtrain rides in and out of camp that fall , usually alone with garbage or elk meat ...it was 29 miles over two passes. THAT is one operative example of being ' bear bait'. Surprisingly , all my personal bear encounters were positive. And there were many coming and going.
The Great bear was now listed as a threatened species, which was good, but the Park Service had quit feeding them at the dumps inside the Park , which was bad , becasue the older bears still thought people were friendly to them and the younger bears didn't know any better...yet. They do now.
Mountain Cowboy Yellow Slicker
I think every western photorealist painter in twenty states from Texas to Montana , California to Kansas , did the obligatory " Cowboy In A Yellow Slicker " painting at some point.
Mike Poulsen of Cody painted this scene , almost point for point, grain for grain, adding a few things like an axe and a knotted rope. He got thousands for his oil painting. I got $ 50 from him.
The cowboy is Al Craig , of Kimberley British Columia Canada working for Crossed Sabers Ranch up in Wapiti. The scene was photographed in the greatest hunting camp in the mountains, the old Billy Howell camp on Mountain Creek adjacent to the eastern boundary of Yellowstone Park on the far side of Eagle Creek and Fishhawk Creek. I worked in that camp one season for my old friend Rich Marta, CS manager, and Bert Bell was the outfitter. It was 1976 and the place was thick with grizzlies. Cody character Alan becker and I were bear bait, staying in camp when noone else was there besides our usual duties ( I made about 15-20 packtrain rides in and out of camp that fall , usually alone with garbage or elk meat ...it was 29 miles over two passes. THAT is one operative example of being ' bear bait'. Surprisingly , all my personal bear encounters were positive. And there were many coming and going.
The Great bear was now listed as a threatened species, which was good, but the Park Service had quit feeding them at the dumps inside the Park , which was bad , becasue the older bears still thought people were friendly to them and the younger bears didn't know any better...yet. They do now.