ArtCure 2016 – Art to Beat Cancer 2014: Benefit for the James Graham Brown Cancer Center
Auction Ends: Nov 21, 2014 09:30 PM EST

Art

Colorado Memories: ART TICKET ITEM

Item Number
124
Estimated Value
2000 USD
Buy Now Price
50 USD
Quantity Available
0
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Item Description

10" high x 12" wide, oil on linen
Frame: 
Artist: Dan Young

This is an ART TICKET item. 24 raffle tickets at $50 each are available. PLEASE CLICK ON "BUY TICKETS" ON OUR HOMEPAGE TO PURCHASE TICKETS FOR THIS PAINTING. The drawing for this painting will be held the night of the benefit.

The final price for this painting will be matched by the Veritas Curat Foundation, thereby doubling the donation to cancer research at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center.

Dan Young was born in Denver, and grew up in western Colorado. "Camping and fishing through out the Rocky Mountains as a child, has been a strong influence on me and my work,¿ Young stated. He attended Colorado Institute of Art, hoping to find a direction in art. After graduation he moved to Dallas to pursue the commercial art field. Even with a successful Illustration career, the landscape was always calling him back. In 1989, he returned to Colorado to begin painting full time. Young enjoys painting the rural life of the west, the ranches that dot the mountain valleys and river bottoms. He states,¿ Though I¿m a landscape painter, I like introducing hints of man¿s presence in the landscape. Sometimes I feel I¿m in a race to paint a disappearing way of life. It¿s hard to watch so many of the family farms and ranches being swallowed up by development.¿

Young clings strongly to the importance of painting from life. He feels painting from life was the most important stepping stone for his career. Most days you can find him painting along a backroad or beside a mountain lake.

¿I still spend about 50 percent of my time painting on location. That¿s what drew me to painting, the love of being out in nature and trying to accurately capture it on canvas. I still get excited when I head out for a day of painting. It doesn¿t matter if I paint in Alaska or out my front door, it helps keep me fresh to paint on location,¿ he says.




Item Special Note

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