A RARE VINTAGE LINDY! This early painting hung in my parents'  home. I salvaged it from Mom's first downsizing. It's been languishing in storage ever since!

This rock-strewn mountain stream was a favorite hike and fishing hole of ours along the Rio Bonito. Deep in the wilderness area of Lincoln National Forest, we hiked and camped this area so often, I had the boulders memorized long before I painted this oil in 1980. While not my very first large oil painting, this one planted my young roots as a landscape painter. Water and rocks are still favorite painting subjects, but these days, I can't stay in the woods forever without seeing and painting sky as well. A wildfire ultimately took these woods, so my painting preserves that earlier time in nature. Perhaps one day, I'll return to paint the young regrowth as an older, more experienced artist.

original 18" x 24" oil on canvas | unframed