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Country Girls - Oil on Canvas
Another creation by Lee
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Title: Country Girls
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 20" x 30"
Status: Private collection, Wyoming
Notes: by Lee Teter
“Country Girls is a painting full of color. When the moon rises just as the sun sets, colors get all mixed up and it is a magical time of day. The whole setting changes so fast and colors merge so subtly that the mind can hardly realize what has happened.
It is the same with girls; daughters change so fast that they are all grown up before you know it. It will always be difficult to look at a daughter, already grown, without looking for the little girl that existed only moments ago. They merge one sort of beauty into another before the mind can comprehend what has happened.
I have seldom been doing anything so important I couldn’t stop to watch the sun set. A daughter growing up is so much more spectacular than any sunset.”
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Uncertain - Oil on Canvas
18th Century Warriors
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Title: Uncertain
Medium: Oil on canvas
Status: Private collection - Montana
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Good Things - Oil on Panel
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Title: Good Things
Medium: Oil on Panel
Image Size: 16" x 20"
Status: Private Collection, Virginia
Notes by LEE TETER
"This painting marks a major turning point in the way I paint. To make this picture I brought together several years of experimentation and study. I turned my back on modern art completely, using only the painting techniques of early painters. The way they painted fits me like a glove.
I like the mid-19th century style arched top and an almost formal pose so often seen in old art, so I used it here.
Lee Teter
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The Reminder- Oil on Canvas
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Title: The Reminder
Medium: Oil on canvas, Mounted on Panel
Image Size: 24.5" x 26"
Status: Private Collection
Notes: by Lee Teter
"This painting is intended to be part of a collection of images I am putting together to tell the story of the rendezvous system and early exploration of the Rocky Mountains. All stories must have a beginning and this painting is that beginning. The famous mountain men of the West all came from the east. Before they had completely adapted to the West their world looked like the one in this painting.
Even before 1810, long before the era of the rendezvous, there are accounts of trappers exploring the Rocky Mountains. As time passed and experience altered their methods of survival they looked different and thought different.
Their journeys were business ventures, or at least that was the excuse they often gave themselves. Goodbyes were intense because chances of a safe return were not good. And greetings after a long absence were sometimes awkward; much could happen during the years apart. This painting could represent a greeting or a goodbye and I leave that to the viewer."
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Written In Stone
Written in Stone
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Title: Written In Stone
Medium: Pencil, study for future painting
Image Size: 14" x 30", framed in gold.
Status: In Private Collection - Texas
People have left their traces on the land and in the stones; silent signals that whisper of joy or fear decorate mountains and cliffs. These whispers are mysterious because they hint at deeper things lost to the turnings of the earth.
In a heart, carved in stone, beloved initials could only hint at their meaning. Their meaning was as real as the rock and could be felt, seen and remembered. Meaning is like music heard, and monuments like written notes unplayed.
The cowboy wanders over land that has been traversed by Indians, mountain men and other cowboys like himself - and during his wanderings the girl he loves is waiting beyond the cloudless sky and gray green land. His carving will last a long time, just as the Indian writings have. It will be there long after he has made the girl his wife; long after they have watched their children and grandchildren grow. It will be there long after he has spent his life with the girl he loves. But even rock becomes scarred and erodes . Marks made in stone become unreadable: Stone is only a little less temporary than flesh and blood.
It doesn’t matter. The meaning will live on in the mind of God who sees invisible meaning that men try to record in stone. Love is as eternal as the God who remembers and delights in human hearts who share love and find it worthy of a monument. Monuments may crumble to dust, but love is etched upon an eternal surface
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Poetry
Poetry surrounds us
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Title: Poetry
Medium: Pencil
Image Size: 13" x 9.5"
Status: Original Available
This fine drawing has been framed in pale gold with layered white matting divided by gold filet. As you browse the detail pictures keep in mind that the book covers only a little more than one square inch. The soft, high key drawing has been rendered with such delicate touches that only magnification will allow the craftsmanship to be truly appreciated. Without magnification the tones merge to form a softness fitting the subject.
POETRY
Poetry surrounds us.
Poems have flowed from the pens of countless poets – dreamers, lovers, observers and interpreters of the world. Poetry can take any thought, action, event, or person and make an eloquent, graceful statement about its subject in just a few lines. Other forms of writing require paragraphs to evoke the feelings poetry achieves in mere seconds.
Although poems exist on paper, the images they create exist in the reader’s mind and heart. People, places and times are captured in a rhythm where they live forever. What inspires the poet to write and the reader to read are the moments in life we’ve all known. Those who author a poem are inspired by the poetry of life around them, while readers examine poetry as it surrounds them.
Horses rustling through grass, gently exhaling and sighing; an afternoon sun, farther away than even the imagination can comprehend, shining so brightly and warming the skin; a book grasped in the hand, more left to read than has been pondered, promising many more moments pleasantly spent. These are poetic experiences enriching daily life, the poetry of the memory. One day, these peaceful moments will be remembered. Everyone may become a poet, as the mind sifts through memories, and in essence, recaptures our beautiful days when youth and life were poetry untapped by art or phrase.
As evening fell
A maiden stood
At the edge of a wood
In her hand lay the reins
Of a stallion
And ne’er I’d seen a girl as fair
Heard a gentler voice anywhere
Whispered alas, she belongs to
Another
She belongs to the twilight
And mist.
By Brock Walsh
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Leaving Home
Leaving home
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Title: Leaving Home
Medium: Pencil Drawing
Image Size: 10" x 14.25"
Status: Private Collection
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My Favorite
My Favorite
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Title: My Favorite
Medium: Pencil
A pencil study for the oil painting titled: Good Things
This study wasn`t the final rendition, it was merely part of the process of the developement of the painting. |
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From Mother with Love
Mother love
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Title: From Mother with Love
Medium: Pencil & Charcoal
Image Size: 16"x32"
Status: Original in private collection in Missouri.
Notes:
In the process of modeling a painting celebrating young mothers, the very pregnant model told Lee about receiving a new handmade baby blanket from her mother; as she opened the package she could smell her mother’s home. The look in her eyes as she told the story inspired a painting.
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