EARL BISS SIGNED PRINT "SNOW ON THE RIMROCKS" INDIAN Start Price USD 999.98 Current Price USD 999.98 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, November 19, 2008 End Time Sunday, November 23, 2008 Location Bend, Oregon See more about 'EARL BISS SIGNED PRINT "SNOW ON THE RIMROCKS" INDIAN' Description HR1KREAT store EARL BISS SIGNED PRINT "SNOW ON THE RIMROCKS" INDIAN INSURANCE REQUIRED (OFFERS ARE CONSIDERED) **MUST READ BELOW BEFORE BIDDING***I WILL NOT SHIP TO ANY ADDRESS OTHER THAN WHAT IS IN YOUR PAYPAL PAYMENT. NO EXCEPTIONS AT ALL...YOU CAN CHANGE THE SHIPPING ADDRESS PRIOR TO MAKING A PAYMENT IF YOU WISH FOR IT TO BE SENT ELSEWHERE..THIS IS PER  EBAY / PAYPAL RULES. SHIPPING OPTIONS: ***(INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS: WILL HAVE TO HAVE ITEM PREPARED AND SHIPPED TO THEM AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE..I WILL DELIVER ARTWORK TO DESIRED LOCATION BUT WILL NOT PREPARE IT OR SHIP IT INTERNATIONALLY) USA BIDDERS : YOU CAN HAVE ME DROP OFF THE ARTWORK AT MAIL BOXES ECT Mail Boxes Etc. # 1044WAGNER MALL 1972 NE THIRD STBEND, OR 97701 - USAPhone: (541)389-6165 (OR YOUR CHOICE OF SHIPPER---UPS, FEDEX ETC) AND ARRANGE TO PAY FOR THE PACKAGING (IF NEEDED) AND THE SHIPPING EXPENSE THROUGH THEM , PAID BY YOU. OR I CAN PACKAGE IT AND SHIP IT FOR YOU..I WILL DO MY PROFESSIONAL BEST TO PACKAGE IT ACCORDINGLY...TONS OF BUBBLE WRAP AND STRONG CARDBOARD.INFORMATION ON ARTIST FROM INTERNET: "My paintings might suggest a harmony of man and nature, a combining of rigid line and free flowing spontaneity, bubbling with rich color with the disciplined design of the hard edge technique. I am not concerned with capturing the outward image of nature, but rather those powers or forces of nature which play such an important part or basis for the way things are. A concept of reality drawn from spontaneous abstractions, and controlled with the subtlety I wield as the creator." - Earl Biss, 1995Earl Biss, Absaroke (Crow), was born on September 29, 1947 in Renton, Washington; he was raised by his grandmother at Crow Agency, Montana, and at Yakima, Washington. He contracted rheumatic fever at age eight and instead of the usual boyhood activities, he started drawing and painting. Biss's first oils were done at age twelve, but his formal training did not start until age sixteen at the then new Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, where he studied jewelry and three-dimensional art from 1963-65. After graduation, Biss received a scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute where he studied oil painting. As an artist, Biss expressed much of his emotional turmoil, embodied by his mystical, melting landscapes and people, while still admiring and studying old European masters. As a student of Fritz Scholder at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, he was exposed early in his training to the style of Abstract Expressionism as a creative and emotional outlet. As an Absaroke (Crow) Indian artist and benefactor, he was admired for his professionalism, business sense, and compassion for the Absaroke people. The invisible energy contained in nature is perhaps Biss's subject, and he translated this invisible energy into abstraction on his canvas. His technique resembles the spirit of nature in its freedom with fluid movements, layering, and non-ending rhythms. Biss differed with the Abstract Expressionists by admitting that his paintings began with ideas, while most other Abstract Expressionist painters began with the process of painting. When Biss created images, that same force of nature was present. He said that he "loves to move paint" and was primarily concerned with the medium, but he dealt with the commercial reality of painting Indian subjects. He said that he did his best work when he was dealing with something about which he felt deeply and knew more intimately than the ideas behind experimental art that originated in New York and Europe. Biss painted on the Greek island of Corfu for six months and credited the Old Masters such as Turner, the Fauvists, and Munch, along with Pollack and de Kooning, as creative influences. On October 15, 1998, he died from a stroke while in his studio painting. Earl Biss's works in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center include General Custer in Blue and Green, Mountain Warriors before the Storm, and Parley. WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT THIS PRINT: NOT MUCH...IT WAS A GIFT TO MY SISTER-IN-LAW AND BROTHER MANY YEARS AGO...SHE HAS NEVER REALLY LIKED THIS TYPE OF ARTWORK AND HAS JUST HAD IT HANGING IN A SPARE ROOM FOR YEARS. SHE IS REDECORATING IT FOR HER MOTHER AND WANTS TO GET RID OF THIS PIECE. THE BACK OF IT STATES: "SNOW IN THE RIMROCKS"I COULD NOT FIND THIS EXACT PRINT ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET. IN ABSOLUTE EXCELLENT PERFECT CONDITON. GALLERY / MUSEUM FRAMEDSIZE: FRAME: 31 X 26 INCHES PRINT: MEASURED FROM THE OUTSIDE (I DO NOT KNOW THE ACTUAL SIZE OF THE ENTIRE PRINT SINCE IT IS FRAMED AND SEALED. ) 17 X 13 INCHES PHOTOS: I TOOK PICTURES WITH BOTH FLASH ON AND FLASH OFF UNDER A TABLE LAMP...SORRY I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER. THE COLORS ARE MUCH DEEPER IN PERSON AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE DETAIL WHERE THIS WAS AN OIL PAINTING ORIGINALLY. 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