I planned to share this in a blog since it is so that very odd that way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting and only just recently removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat on the medial side within the studio. Two to three weeks ago, I had created a picture that I planned to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The picture was of an mountain, as we are coming down from your top. I knew I desired it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. And so i designed a canvas. I knew before hand the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.
I only agreed to be one or two hours in it for the first day. The other day, I took the painting beside me on the beach and managed to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It turned out a bit of an epic struggle in memory!
We were discussing frames which one out of particular that we had just acquired stumbled on mind. I ran right down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!
But here’s the place that the story gets interesting, the frame came from Christies auction house. Around the botton from the frame would have been a brass label. It had, up to now framed a painting by Frederic Remington, called “The Way Down” and featured a string of pack mules descending a mountain side.
Sound strange!?
1. The Classical impressionist artist I’d done in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, awaiting new life, off to the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in daily life, your way over the shadows and mountain highs. Which was a bit a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame we happened to have down from the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting been about the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title could possibly be taken many different ways. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrive at my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it seems like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I have no idea!! But there it’s! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back from the painting and are sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!
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