Into the Wilderness: Wind River Range, Wyoming

Eisele Gallery is pleased to present Into the Wilderness: Wind River Range, Wyoming, a two-person exhibition of landscape oil paintings by Robert Hagberg and Chuck Marshall. The exhibition will be on view from October 25th to November 30th, 2019. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday October 25th from 5pm-8pm, the artists will be present. In conjunction with this event, Delamere & Hopkins, an established outfitter for the Cincinnati sporting community, will provide fly-fishing demonstrations and a display of their high-quality outdoor gear. We will also have four different bourbons available for tasting from the Jim Beam Distillery Bourbon Legends Collection. This event is free and open to the public. Eisele Gallery will also have a selection of American 19th & 20th century paintings on exhibition and available for purchase. 

About the exhibition and Robert and Chucks travels’ 

The origin of the “Trip into the Wilderness”, that Robert Hagberg and Chuck Hagberg attended, was started by well-known artist Tucker Smith from Pinedale, Wyoming. He created and organized an annual trip for himself and other artists to spend time in the Wind River Range in Wyoming as inspiration for their artwork. As Tucker has aged, he has been unable to make the trip anymore. Thankfully, artist Lanny Grant decided to continue the tradition and invited Robert and Chuck to go along. Robert and Chuck met through the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Association and have been great friends ever since. They have made the trip to Wyoming two years in a row now, along with artist Niles Nordquift. Robert describes this trip as “a real experience, unlike anything else”. Each artist is amazed by the beauty and contrast to their normal city life.

The Wind River Range is about 80 miles long. Each year they hire an outfitter to bring the materials and food for the time they are there. Mules carry the supplies and the artists ride on horseback to the camp, 3-4 hours away from civilization. While on the trip, the artists go out daily with their painting supplies and create plein air studies, weather permitting. Another reward and source of inspiration for this trip is that American wildlife artist Carl Rungius (1869–1959) also painted in this area. The artists value the experience of creating where he painted as well as finding works by Rungius that depict the Wind River Range. All of their paintings on view at Eisele Gallery will be works inspired by both trips to Wyoming in July 2018 and July 2019.