Doing several paintings to hang in the new Spearfish Crow Peak Brewery, I explored Native American legends regarding the Crow and the Sioux Indians.   Enemies in earlier days, there are many winter count and ledger art records about battles between the two tribes.  Paintings I did for the brewery explored the legend of how the local landmark, Crow Peak, got it’s name.  There was a mighty battle in which the Crow Indians were defeated by the Sioux, and thus the name of the mountain.

I love the free-soaring forms of the birds in flight, along with the high contrast of the subject matter.  Soaring high!