Original artwork description:

This is an original oil painting on canvasboard by American artist Jerry De La Cruz (b 1948, Denver, CO). The painting itself is 11” high by 14” wide. It is framed in an ornate gilded wood frame to a framed size of 16.5” high by 19.5” wide.

The subject is a landscape of snow-capped mountains, a clear blue mountain lake, and a downy field of wild grasses and flowers. Most of the picture plane is taken up with the valley floor full of wild flowers and grasses. Only in the upper quadrant is the placid lake surrounded by mountains visible almost as a background under a blue sky.

The palette is predominated by greens, golds and blues. The work is appropriately titled “High Country Lake” and is a scene in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. It is in pristine condition and signed front lower right by the artist.

De La Cruz has been a full-time professional fine artist since 1975. He was the subject of a museum-wide retrospective at Denver's Museo de las Americas in 2015-2016. He is listed among the three dozen most influential regional artists of the twentieth century in a Denver Post survey of regional curators and proved the bestselling artist at the first International Latino Art Auction in Phoenix, AZ. The Denver Art Museum's first purchase of a living Hispanic's work for its permanent collection was a De La Cruz. Years later, he was the only artist considered when that same museum wanted to commission a major, contemporary digital work commemorating the opening of its new Libeskind Building. De La Cruz was the recipient of back-to-back artist-in-residency grants from Colorado in his early career and received as well their very last painting fellowship. Other honors include award of Best Art Event of the Year by Westword Magazine and appointment to Denver’s Commission on Arts and Culture. For further information, please see the artist’s extensive website.

Materials used:

Oil

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