Idaho-Mountains

Mist ascending from the Hebrides Mountains and querulous red highland cows echo into the wind to the moor that I am Clan Morrison. Multiple pigments and charcoals that make inks and queries of graphite echo that I am an artist. Artists have had a unique connection to the Great Divide, and two states use it as their border Montana and Idaho. The name “Idaho” is from an Apache name that had nothing to do with the state. I learned the capital of the state because boys eat there. The National Geographic book mentioned Idaho’s “kissing frog.” The one of NAACP’s Idaho directors was white and that states is known for racism. That makes one ask if in that state has white people fighting about how great they are. It might have oil or natural gas. Scarlet O’Hara died in Idaho. Other then such, Idaho is just another cowboy state with beef being big like Texas or Montana which artists love as it is big and open. In a resent Friends of Israel conference one of the conference people said that Morrison might be Jewish perhaps explaining the red cows.

Idaho has a very unique and interesting mythology. Everything is one a Shoshone blanket. The most famous person of that nation was Sacagawea who lead Lewis and Clark to the head water of the Missouri River and to the West Coast (Her nation rests on the continental divide) and was honored with coin in 2001. (No one knows what she looked like.) They were forced on to a reservation in 1863 after 450 men, women and children were murdered by Californians in the Bear River Massacre. Mount MacCawen of the Sawtooth Mountains is in the far background. According to the Native American mythology, the Creator had to flood the world to destroy the evil spirits who were hiding in caves and the Sawtooth Mountains were the only caves left after the deluge. In front of everything is a potato. This is what makes Idaho unique. The tuber first came in 1847 with pioneers who thought they were in Utah and when the first agriculture records where made Idaho made a quarter million dollar on the crop. The cone is from the state tree Western White Pine. I drew this picture about a year-and-half ago with pencil and white charcoal and is 9” x12.”

The name of this picture is Buttercup and was ink drawn over a year ago and is 9” x 12.” Most of my art was drawn from life or picture with the exception that I have never been in Japan which I would love to visit. I would say that standing in a foot of snow is not usually part of art, but it helps finding a great composition. Spring before last, the buttercups came up and all I needed was a lawn chair. If you are interested in buying this or any other of my art email me at MatthewMorrison76@yahoo.com.