Z. Thurmond Studio

Maxwell Lake #3

2011-10-26T11:30:00.000-07:00

5"x7', Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The view from the saddle above Maxwell Lake, in northeast Oregon's Wallowas. It's a fun challenge to cram mountains onto postcards. Maybe I should try to paint a thimble on a six foot canvas, to see what it's like to go the other way...but I'd rather paint mountains.

$85 + $8 U.S. shipping

Pass Creek Hollow

2011-10-24T09:40:00.000-07:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Near the Pass Creek crossing on the trail to Swampy Pass.

$65 + $8 U.S. shipping

Winter Shallows

2011-09-17T09:15:00.000-07:00

30x48, Acrylic/Canvas

It's amazing that the smallest streams can run free even at 20 below. I guess it speaks to the power of the alpine sun and the weight of a few thousand feet of water pushing down on itself.

$3250 including U.S. shipping

Snowed In, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

2011-06-24T15:03:00.000-07:00

Bale stacks at the I-Bar ranch in Gunnison. There is a hay shed there where I saw the greatest John Denver tribute concert ever. This is on the daily dog-walk route out to a meandering stretch of Tomichi Creek...not bad for a 15 minute walk.

$85 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Paradise Divide Cornice

2011-05-02T19:18:00.000-07:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas

Winter retreating near Daisy Pass.

$55 + $8 U.S. shipping

Mill Study, Autumn

2011-05-01T14:35:00.000-07:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Board

SOLD

to a collector in Columbia, MO

Irwin Summer

2011-04-25T14:34:00.000-07:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Board
$95 + $8 U.S. shipping

Ruby Range Slope

2011-04-24T15:36:00.000-07:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Board

SOLD

to a collector in Columbia, MO

Placid

2011-04-09T17:03:00.000-07:00

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

$75 + $8 U.S. shipping

Layers, 7x5, Acrylic/Board

2011-04-02T11:45:00.000-07:00

$125 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Ovation, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2011-03-09T10:01:00.000-08:00

This isn't my best painting, but I think it's my best title yet. Surely trees clap their limbs and leaves together for the cloud show each evening. Why not? If only they could hold lighters.

$40 + $8 U.S. shipping

Strata

2011-02-19T07:45:00.000-08:00

7"x5", Acrylic/Board

SOLD

to a collector in San Antonio, TX

West Elks PM

2011-02-18T10:56:00.000-08:00

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

My favorite valley beneath my favorite range. Again.

$100 + $8 U.S. shipping

Spring Dreams

2011-02-13T07:58:00.000-08:00

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

This is near my favorite napping spot on Hinkle Hill.

SOLD

to a collector in Providence, RI

Carbon Creek Scree Field, 7x5, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2011-02-08T16:38:00.000-08:00

The shoulders of Carbon Peak sloping into its namesake creek.

SOLD

to a collector in Crested Butte, CO

Paradise Divide, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2011-02-07T12:23:00.000-08:00

Paradise Divide seen from the upper lower loop trail.

$75 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Elevation, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2011-02-04T09:24:00.000-08:00

The West Elks from above Lake Irwin.

$100 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Scattered, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

2011-02-02T18:26:00.000-08:00

The Ruby Range, above Lake Irwin.

$75 + $8 U.S. Shipping

West Elk Autumn, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

2011-02-01T09:51:00.000-08:00

A view of the Castles from the flanks of Ohio Pass.

$75 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Thaw, 8x8, Acrylic/Canvas

2011-01-31T17:23:00.000-08:00

$100 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Maxwell Lake

2011-01-29T14:43:00.000-08:00

7"x5", Acrylic/Board

$125 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Shadow's Edge, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

2011-01-28T11:24:00.000-08:00

$100 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Upstream, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

2011-01-27T11:59:00.000-08:00

This is the Taylor breaking free from this winter's record snowfall. I'm feeling this one out for a larger canvas.

$100 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Palisades #4

2011-01-20T11:14:00.000-08:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Gessoed hardboard
West Elk Breccia being cut by the Gunnison River.

SOLD

to the permanent collection at Western State College of Colorado

Nu Art and Nimbus

2011-01-09T08:55:00.000-08:00

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

A bruise-colored sky over Moscow's Main Street.

$35 + $8 U.S. shipping

The Shoulder Season, 6x6, A/C

2011-01-08T08:22:00.000-08:00

I've painted a ton of autumn scenes over the years, but they have always been aspen groves or riparian cottonwoods. I like these dark, bare trunks because they are unobscured by form-masking foliage. I've always liked the Klimt-esque feeling of a bare forest. This was fun.

$45 + $7 shipping

September

2011-01-04T17:12:00.001-08:00

24" x 36", Acrylic/Canvas

$2500 (U.S. Shipping included)

Studio Light

2011-01-03T12:55:00.000-08:00

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

$35 + $8 U.S. shipping

Towards Pullman

2010-12-23T11:58:00.000-08:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Contrails and utility poles doing their best to frame the setting sun.

$45 + $8 U.S. shipping

Brush Creek Cattle

2010-12-22T09:26:00.000-08:00

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

$55 + $8 U.S. shipping

Lowline Trail

2010-12-21T10:24:00.000-08:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

SOLD

to a collector in Weston, FL

Morning Virga

2010-12-19T07:27:00.000-08:00

12"x16", Acrylic/Canvas

$495 + $15 U.S. shipping

Shafts of Light, 6x6, A/C

2010-12-18T09:30:00.000-08:00

It amazes me that this happens every day. It amazes me more that i don't make a point of watching every single one of them from start to finish.

$75 + $8 US Shipping

Procession, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas

2010-12-17T12:17:00.000-08:00

Here are some nonsensical, rambling journal notes that a younger version of myself wrote while leaning on this very tree...

...and the sky blue sky hides every shade of yellow, and there is red in the leaves that are every green ever grown, and the growing green grasses hide their orange bellies from the violet eyes of apricot sunsets...and even the empty air flutters like butterfly wings...

and it goes on and on. Maybe I lean on trees too much.
But I don't think so.

$75 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Aspen Road

2010-12-14T08:32:00.000-08:00

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

One of the old timber tracks on the flanks of the West Elks, gradually being consumed by the aspen grove.

SOLD

to a collector in Crested Butte, CO

Winter Palisades

2010-12-10T14:10:00.000-08:00

7"x5", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

SOLD

to a collector in Columbia, MO

Liquid Glass

2010-12-09T09:54:00.000-08:00

7"x5", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The clear waters of the Central Rockies.

$45 + $8 U.S. shipping

Gray Day

2010-12-08T06:45:00.000-08:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Cloud shadows surfing over the West Elks.

$45 + $8 U.S. shipping

Mass

2010-12-05T14:58:00.000-08:00

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

The hulking mass of the Sawatch Range after an early storm. The deep valleys are like wells of blue ink, filling and darkening as the afternoon progresses.

$55 + $8 U.S. shipping

Columns

2010-12-04T07:43:00.000-08:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

October snow near Pass Creek

SOLD

Aspens and Willows

2010-12-03T07:28:00.000-08:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

$45 + $8 U.S. shipping

High Pine

2010-12-02T07:11:00.000-08:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

Just below timberline in the Ruby Range.

SOLD
to a collector in Crested Butte, CO

Palouse Evening #4

2010-12-01T07:07:00.000-08:00

6"x6", Acrylic/Board
Evening east of Moscow.

$45 + $8 U.S. shipping

Winter, Imagined

2010-11-30T12:31:00.000-08:00

6"x6", Acrylic/Board

A mental image (one of many) of Mill Creek that is imprinted somewhere in the tangled bracken of my head.

SOLD

to a collector in Woodland Hills, CA

Cloud Shapes

2010-11-29T09:55:00.000-08:00

6"x6", Acrylic/Board

$55 + $8 U.S. shipping

Lone

2010-11-28T08:12:00.000-08:00

6"x6", Acrylic/Board

$45 +$8 U.S. shipping

Mudflap, 6x6, A/C

2010-11-27T09:19:00.000-08:00

$45 + $8 U.S. shipping

Maxwell Lake #2

2010-11-26T08:15:00.000-08:00

6"x6", Acrylic/Board

SOLD

to a collector in Friedberg, Germany

Seasons

2010-11-21T11:55:00.000-08:00

7"x5", Acrylic/Board

$55 + $8 U.S. shipping

Daisy Pass

2010-11-12T12:16:00.000-08:00

7"x5", Acrylic/Board

The area beneath Daisy Pass, near the head of the Slate River Valley. This is where our shepherd rolled in a dead porcupine, with predictable results.

$75 + $8 U.S. shipping

Elk Ave.

2010-11-11T13:30:00.000-08:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Board

Downtown Crested Butte

SOLD

to a collector in Columbus, OH

Ribbons, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

2010-10-17T18:23:00.000-07:00

It's amazing when the angle of the sun matches the angle of the slope. All sorts of tiny little hills and valleys show themselves for those few minutes.

$85 + $8 U.S. Shipping

In the Shadows

2010-10-16T10:10:00.000-07:00

7"x5", Acrylic/Gessoed Hardboard

SOLD

to a collector in Falls Church, VA

Teocalli Storm

2010-10-13T04:00:00.000-07:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Board

$75 + $8 U.S. shipping

Bare

2010-10-12T16:17:00.000-07:00

24"x36", Acrylic/Canvas

The sun falling out of the sky up Mill Creek.

$725 + $50 U.S. shipping

Morning Over Westwater, 8x6, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-09-01T08:29:00.000-07:00

Angled clouds reflecting angled light over an angled landscape in southeastern Utah.

$45 + $8 U.S. shipping

Spring Sprung, 48x24, Acrylic/Canvas

2010-08-31T07:05:00.000-07:00

$2750 (Includes U.S. Shipping)

Expanse #2

2010-08-30T07:20:00.000-07:00

7"x5", Acrylic/Board

Paradise Ridge and wheatfields from the University of Idaho arboretum.

SOLD

Mill Creek and Flat Top, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-08-28T09:26:00.000-07:00

SOLD

to a collector in Portland, OR

Autumn Gold

2010-08-26T07:45:00.000-07:00

48"x36", Acrylic/Canvas

$3950 (Includes U.S. Shipping)

An especially vibrant grove on a bluebird day in the Little Mill Creek drainage. This grove is outstanding every year.

Silos, South View

2010-08-25T07:00:00.000-07:00

7"x5", Acrylic/Board

$35 + $8 U.S. shipping

Turnstile, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-08-24T11:44:00.000-07:00

A rancher's turnstile on a trail to the Gunnison River.

SOLD

to a collector in Oro Valley, AZ

Utility 3, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-08-23T07:40:00.000-07:00

$45 + $8 U.S. shipping

Third and Washington, 8x6, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-08-22T09:36:00.000-07:00

Last light filtering through downtown Moscow.

$30 + $8 U.S. shipping

Switchtrack, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas

2010-08-20T07:25:00.000-07:00

$40 + $8 U.S. shipping

Beef Barn #9, 6x6, A/C

2010-08-18T09:00:00.000-07:00

A barn on the University of Idaho campus.

SOLD

to a collector in Oro Valley, AZ

Three Windows, 5x7, A/C

2010-08-17T07:21:00.000-07:00

I don't get to use a bold green very often. I find that Ma Nature's green is usually shifted one way or another on the wheel. That's why this plywood door caught my eye. This is another building on the new-development chopping block. Is it just me, or does it kind of looks like it's yelling at you?

SOLD

to a collector in Oro Valley, AZ

Time and Space, 8x6, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-08-16T12:10:00.000-07:00

Watching the darkness of space recede towards the zenith as a new day begins. It's mind boggling to think of all the motion involved here...driving at a certain speed, beneath clouds that are moving at their own pace, chasing the sun as it arcs across the sky, all on a spinning earth, each going in its own direction, like cogs driving each other around. And somehow it all stays together. You think about odd things when you drive a billion miles a year. I think this one would be fun on a six foot canvas.

SOLD

to a collector in St. Louis, MO

Sixth St. Sunset, 8x6, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-08-14T10:06:00.000-07:00

Downtown Moscow at dusk. I liked how the traffic lights echoed the scalloped sunset.

SOLD

to a collector in Little Rock, AR

Sawtooth Summer, 5x7, A/C

2010-08-12T08:36:00.000-07:00

$35 + $8 U.S. shipping.

Passing Virga, 7x5, Acrylic/Board

2010-08-11T07:40:00.000-07:00

I think weather is best seen from eye level.

$40 + $8 U.S. shipping

Steam Plant II, 7x5, A/C

2010-08-08T11:00:00.000-07:00

$40 + $8 U.S. shipping

Pasture Light, 5x7, A/C

2010-08-07T10:54:00.000-07:00

I almost left the cow out of this one to focus on pure horizon, but my cows always need work so i threw it in. As a "western artist" (whatever that means), i find that, regardless of how much i observe, draw, and paint them, cows and horses are just plain weird.

$45 + $7 shipping

Jackson Street Silos #2, 6x6, A/C

2010-08-05T06:51:00.000-07:00

I love painting these old silos, but i feel like i have trouble showing their scale. I thought i would try this old cinematography trick to give a sense of their height. I may have gone a little far with it, but it was fun anyway.

$45 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Six String and Sunflowers, 24x24, A/C

2010-08-04T08:13:00.000-07:00

I've always really liked the simple composition and brushwork of this one. This was about seven or eight years and apartments ago... strange to think about. My husky was young then, and she systematically destroyed that couch. She unstitched the piping and ripped the arms down to the particle board frame. Oh well...it was an ugly couch anyway. Still have the guitar. And the husky.

$100 + $35 U.S. shipping

Rising Shadows, 6x6, A/C

2010-08-03T07:25:00.000-07:00

I left out the caravan of RVs on the valley floor. I think it would be a much more interesting painting with them, but i couldn't bring myself to do it.

SOLD

to a collector in Columbia, MO

Tomichi Creek Below Tenderfoot

2010-08-01T08:46:00.000-07:00

12" x 24", Acrylic/Canvas

SOLD

to a collector in Crested Butte, CO

Trout Waters

2010-07-31T09:06:00.000-07:00

30" x 40", Acrylic/Canvas

$2750 (Includes U.S. Shipping)

Pass Creek Three

2010-07-29T06:39:00.000-07:00

36" x 24", Acrylic/Canvas

$2500 (Includes U.S. Shipping)

Up the Hill, 5x7, A/C

2010-07-28T07:08:00.000-07:00

SOLD

to a collector in Pittsburgh, PA

Turn, Turn, Turn

2010-07-27T07:00:00.000-07:00

48"x30", Acrylic/Canvas

SOLD

to a collector in Vail, CO

Jack's Cabin View, 5x7, Acrylic/Board

2010-07-26T07:28:00.000-07:00

$100 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Upper Taylor

2010-07-25T08:15:00.000-07:00

30"x40", Acrylic/Canvas

Upper Taylor River in Gunnison County

$2750 (Includes U.S. Shipping)

Cloud Shadows

2010-07-24T07:54:00.001-07:00

30"x40", Acrylic/Canvas

$2750 (Includes U.S. Shipping)

Quaking Autumn, 16x20", A/C

2010-07-23T07:05:00.000-07:00

16"x20", Acrylic/Canvas

$100 + $20 U.S. Shipping

Viscosity

2010-07-22T07:16:00.000-07:00

5"x7", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

A slow river of granite flowing down to Spring Creek.

$25 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Canyon Light, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-07-21T07:54:00.000-07:00

This is the Gunnison River's Black Canyon, upstream from the North Rim. It's fun to cram so much space into such a small format.

SOLD

to a collector in Tampa, FL

Tempest

2010-07-20T07:47:00.000-07:00

SOLD

to a collector in Pittsburgh, PA

Slate River Spring, 5x7, Acrylic/Canvas

2010-07-19T07:43:00.000-07:00

The Slate River Valley, my second favorite valley in the world. The glaciation is so evident on the valley walls that it looks like they just receded yesterday.

$75 + $8 U.S. Shipping

Expanse, 6x8, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-07-14T07:10:00.000-07:00

Evening clouds rolling over the hills of the Palouse.

SOLD

to a collector in Princeton, NJ

Mason Jar and Lit Candle,16x20, A/C

2010-07-13T06:45:00.000-07:00

$100 + $25 U.S. Shipping

Contrast

2010-07-12T07:35:00.000-07:00

6"x8", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

SOLD

to a collector in Crested Butte, CO

Light in the Dark, 4x6, A/C

2010-07-11T10:34:00.000-07:00

I like this one except for the fact that the lamp is dead center of the painting. I know better than that. It didn't start out there...it just keep migrating right as i tried to get the shade to glow. I'll probably try this again with a better composition, maybe in a square format with more focus on the wall.

SOLD

to a collector in Garland, TX

Salmon River Hills 2, 6x8, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-07-10T07:40:00.000-07:00

Another piece from along the Salmon. This one is right before the climb up Whitebird Hill, where Volkswagen vans go to die.

SOLD

to a collector in Garland, TX

Salmon River Hills, 6x8, Acrylic/Canvas

2010-07-09T07:15:00.000-07:00

Afternoon light along the Salmon River. This is on the main fork, just north of Riggins, Idaho. There's some unique light there, so I may do a small series of these.

SOLD

to a collector in Garland, TX

Cloud Study, 6x8, Acrylic/Canvas Panel

2010-07-08T07:35:00.000-07:00

A quick study of a front passing over Paradise Ridge. I have a large piece that is along these lines. Check it out at www.zthurmondfineart.com

$50 + $7 U.S. Shipping

Spring in the Valley, 7x5, Acrylic/Board

2010-07-07T07:20:00.000-07:00

Maybe it's because I don't have a lawn, but I've always felt that dandelions have gotten a bad rap. I mean, even if they only look like this for a few weeks each spring, it's a pretty beautiful few weeks.

SOLD

to a collector in Columbia, MO

Hillside Grove

2010-05-05T13:06:00.000-07:00

30"x40", Acrylic/Canvas

An overcast day during the overlapping seasons in the West Elks.

SOLD

to a collector in Boise, ID

Shavano Shining

2010-05-04T11:56:00.000-07:00

24"x36", Acrylic/Canvas

$2500 (Includes US Shipping)

Shavano from Monarch Pass. This file is cropped a bit too much, please visit my website to see the full image.

Jackson St. Silos #5

2010-05-03T07:36:00.000-07:00

8"x6", Acrylic/Canvas Panel

$100 + $8 U.S. shipping