Each numbered print comes with a certificate of authenticity in your choice of high-quality watercolor paper or canvas. Paper prints are shipped rolled. Canvas prints have two finishing options: 1) Shipped rolled in a tube or 2) stretched and ready-to-hang with a gallery wrap finish. Your print will be shipped within 10 business days of purchase. Embellished giclees are only available as canvas, stretched, and ready-to-hang and take 8 to 10 weeks to complete. Read more about embellished giclees here.
Beauty and Grace is simple and pleasing composition that allows you to focus on the young Ute woman's beauty. I use chiaroscuro, or dramatic contrasts with light, to highlight the lovely, strong structure of her face. This painting is set in the mid- to late-1800's, which you can tell by the woman's abalone shell earring. There is little water in the Ute tribal homeland, so shell accoutrements would have been obtained through trade.
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