Laramie Peak Evening

by Chance Kafka

Original - Sold

Price

$1,000

Dimensions

36.000 x 24.000 x 0.500 inches

Title

Laramie Peak Evening

Artist

Chance Kafka

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

Description

In the tranquility of the evening, the Laramie River winds toward Regal Laramie peak at sunset. Stormy, dramatic clouds fill the sky revealing a crescent moon that's chasing the sun to the horizon. Trees dot the landscape near the river, as is common on the western plains. Rays from the setting shoot up into the sky, also a common sight to behold in the American West.

This impressionistic scene depicts an area not far from where I grew up in Wheatland, Wyoming. Although I took some artistic liberties with this painting, it mostly depicts a view of the river not far off of Fletcher Park road, one of the few rural roads that give access to the Laramie Mountains (also known as the Laramie Range).

Wheatland offers some of the best views of this rugged and highly underrated mountain range. The Cowboy State has so many mountains to offer that perhaps this one doesn't get as much attention but I felt like it deserved some.

Laramie Peak is the crown of the 170 mile-long Laramie Mountains that begin as the northern extension of the Colorado Front Range of the Rocky Mountains at the Wyoming/Colorado border, heading north and then turning west to Casper. I have been to the top of this amazing mountain and one can see over 100 miles in some directions. Laramie Peak was many of the Oregon Trail pioneers' first glimpse of the Rocky Mountains, and many wrote about what they thought when they first saw it, thinking it was much closer than it really was because they just assumed it was a hill, having never seen a mountain so big. The peak itself is in a rural isolated area of Medicine Bow National forest, split between Converse and Albany Counties, and has a trail that ascends to the top from Friend Park. Like most of the Laramie Mountains, the rugged Laramie Peak area has deep canyons, forests full of douglas fir and other pine trees, interesting granite boulders, and soaring views of the Great Plains and interior mountain basins of southern Wyoming.

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June 16th, 2019

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