It Was The Whiskey Talking art-code-JIS-02 Tye Mitchell

Tye Mitchell

Although well known for his tonalist landscapes of light and water

Both requests seemed reasonable

Nevada 2019

I like to a leave a little of the painting unfinished - sort of a painting of a painting in progress

It Was The Whiskey Talking art-code-JIS-02 Tye MitchellMontana, USA 2022Large 56 x 79 Unframed, 71 x 94 Framed Edition of 12 Standard 37 x 52 Unframed, 52 x 67 Framed Edition of 12 Whilst the Wild West was no doubt a heavily mythologized era, there can be no doubt that both the level of wanton violence and whiskey consumption were for real. They also, no doubt, played off each other and my sense is that in the colder frontier towns, the relationship was even tighter. Scouting for sites around the Crazy