BRIEF BIO
I was born in the Pennsylvania hill country, not far from the homestead of Andrew Wyeth. Wyeth's work, along with that of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and of more recent vintage Alex Powers, Morgan Weistling, Kirby Sattler and others, have provided many hours of study and inspiration to this self-taught artist. I was just barely a teen when my family moved west to Colorado. From the first glimpse of the Rockies I was hooked. Since then my career as a geologist has taken me all across the west, from the Rockies to the Sierras, from the burning canyons of Death Valley to the ice fields of Glacier and Yellowstone.
A love affair with the West and its history from the Native Americans to the Explorers, Prospectors, Settlers, and even the Artists and Photographers that followed, still continues 50 years later. And if I can record a little of the beauty, the history, the people and the land in the process of exploring this vast expanse, so much the better.
The work of Edward S. Curtis particularly fascinates me. The monumental task of recording photographic images of Native Americans across the West all the way to Alaska is hard to fathom in an age when one can travel by car in a matter of two weeks the same territory that took Lewis & Clark 2 years to navigate. The goal of adding a little color to his magnificent images is not about updating the record, but about hopefully adding to the timelessness of his oft ethereal achievement.
David A. Wolfe
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