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HEADED HOME original paper collage


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Size & Details

Size & Details

Original paper collage features an elk herd heading home with mountains in the background. This large-scale contemporary elk art merges hand-cut paper collage with painting.

  • Medium: vintage papers on wood with acrylic painting
  • Size: 40" H x 70" W (framed)
  • Frame: hand-assembled weathered brown wood frame with Museum Plexi
  • Hardware: ready to hang with D-ring hangers
Process

Process

It’s Elk season and that means lots of movement in the High Country. Take time to pause at your nearest canyon or Aspen-lined meadow and listen for the bugle of one of the West’s most regal ungulates. -- This collage was inspired by a year of extensive reading and research to educate myself on elk and their migratory habits. The background was hand-painted with acrylic but all other detail of the elk family and foreground flora were rendered in hand-cut paper.

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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.