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ASPEN COWBOY original paper collage

$6,500.00


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Size & Details

Size & Details

"I’ll be back shortly,” he said, pulling his signature fringed jacket over his shoulders and plucking the rocks glass from the table. No need to don his hat; it was, as always, already atop his head. As he walked from the door to the path, weaving through the trees and onwards toward the trail of moonlight streaming down from the sky, that sense of calm that seemed to wrap him up like a blanket of stars settled into its familiar place. “I just need a moment.”

Cowboy portrait artwork for the whiskey enthusiast and outdoorsman. Bring home this taste of the high desert ranch life, a mixed media mélange of paper collage, ink transfer and paint techniques, an evocative portrait of a mysterious, hardworking hero.

  • Medium: vintage papers and acrylic on wood
  • Size: 34.25" H x 34.25" W (framed)
  • Frame: metallic-silver float frame
  • Hardware: ready to hang with wire on back
Process

Process

Each Dolan Geiman collage is crafted from hand-cut vintage papers sourced over decades of exploration and careful categorizing, held dearly until the perfect piece arrives to claim their colors and texture. Learn more about the making of paper collages here.

ASPEN COWBOY original paper collage - Frame detail
Limited Series

Limited Series

Each work in Dolan Geiman’s portfolio is unique and hand-crafted. Works indicated with “limited series” are reiterations of a recurring theme or concept.

A Certificate of Authenticity is available upon request.

  • Each piece in a limited series is created with an inimitable collection of found materials: no two are exactly alike, although they may look similar at a glance.
  • Details, colors, specific materials, typography and frame will differ from work to work.

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Dolan Geiman Paper Collages

Dolan's signature paper collage artwork celebrates America's West and Southwest. Color, composition, and detail come to life in hand-cut vintage materials, many salvaged in Dolan's cross-country travels.

Creating the original collage starts with a wood panel. Dolan pulls vintage sheet music from his vast collection and applies these to the wood, first with glue, then with a top layer of whitewash paint. In many prints, this background layer of sheet music peeks through.

Next, Dolan draws the outline for the original collage in graphite atop the sheet music.

Dolan returns to his extensive trove of collected papers – think magazines, antique textbooks, handwritten letters salvaged from abandoned farmsteads - and begins pulling the ideal colors for the piece. He cuts each piece of material by hand and carefully layers into the artwork. These collages are carefully crafted from thousands of small papers: no two are exactly alike.

Dolan's paper collages are finished in a handmade frame constructed from salvaged metal or a modern, minimal wood or metal frame.