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MOUNTAIN MONARCH original paper collage


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Size & Details

Size & Details

Paper collage featuring a stately bull moose meandering through the mountainscape with aspens, stream and hand-painted evergreen trees in the background. All hand-cut paper. Finished in handmade salvaged tin frame and Museum Plexi. Art by Denver artist Dolan Geiman.*Medium: vintage papers on wood
*Size: 54.25" H x 66.25" W (framed)
*Frame: finished in handmade salvaged tin frame with Museum Plexi
*Hardware: ready to hang with D-ring hangers on backnocontentnocontentIf you remember the stories they used to tell in the cold woods, then you'll remember the Old Forest Mage with his chocolate coat and his bone white horns. The Mountain Monarch, some called him, as he ruled from the high timbered hills and aspen groves down to the willow fringed swamps of the low moors. Villagers travelled from far and wide to bring gifts to the Monarch, to watch him in his measured walk and take from him the slow and steady wisdom that he imparted to those who could speak his language. He is ageless and at the same time, ancient. Perhaps you've seen him at some forest edge, standing peaceful and patient, with a thousand years of memories and wisdom, watching the moths dance on dandelions. nocontentnocontentEach 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.

  • Medium: vintage papers on wood
  • Size: 54.25" H x 66.25" W (framed)
  • Frame: finished in handmade salvaged tin frame with Museum Plexi
  • Hardware: ready to hang with D-ring hangers on back
Story

Story

If you remember the stories they used to tell in the cold woods, then you'll remember the Old Forest Mage with his chocolate coat and his bone white horns. The Mountain Monarch, some called him, as he ruled from the high timbered hills and aspen groves down to the willow fringed swamps of the low moors. Villagers travelled from far and wide to bring gifts to the Monarch, to watch him in his measured walk and take from him the slow and steady wisdom that he imparted to those who could speak his language. He is ageless and at the same time, ancient. Perhaps you've seen him at some forest edge, standing peaceful and patient, with a thousand years of memories and wisdom, watching the moths dance on dandelions.

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.

process
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.