Oil on Canvas Panel, 11” x 14”

A chill sweeps across the land on this clear, cool autumn morning, turning Aspen leaves gold and rusting the floor of the East River Valley. Towering high above, the rock face of Gothic Mountain braces itself against a warming burst of sunlight that shatters a clear blue sky announcing the dawn of a new day deep in backcountry of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

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