I desired to share this inside a blog because it is so that very odd that way things happened using this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did a painting and just just recently took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an unusual size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the medial side in the studio. A couple weeks ago, I needed an image that we planned to paint, because I was thinking of life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The style was of your mountain, as we are decreasing from the top. I knew I want to it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very successful. And so i designed a canvas. I knew beforehand how the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only one or two hours into it around the first day. The next day, I took the painting beside me for the beach and been able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was a bit of an epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames and this one inch particular that people had just acquired found mind. I ran down to the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But here is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies ah. About the botton with the frame would be 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 carried out the initial 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed plus they sat, waiting for new life, off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” can be a painting about our battles in life, your way with the shadows and mountain highs. Which was a bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame we became of have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was regarding the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title may be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrive at my knowledge until after the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it feels as though either the “stars align” or that for reasons uknown, this frame was intended for this painting. Why?! I’ve no idea!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is linked to the back from the painting and you will be sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!