A New World

© by Jenness Cortez – Acrylic on mahogany panel, 30 by 36 inches Homage to: Frederic Remington (1861-1909) Evening on a Canadian Lake, Collection of William I. Koch, Palm Beach FL The Mountain Men, Bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY Charles M....

Requiem

© by Jenness Cortez – Acrylic on mahogany panel, 34 by 36 inches Homage to: Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) The Last of the Buffalo (Amended by Jenness Cortez, 2015) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite  North Carolina Museum of Art,...

The First Americans

© by Jenness Cortez – Acrylic on mahogany panel, 15 by 20 inches Jenness Cortez (1944-    ) Color study for a painting, “The Sentinels” George Catlin (1796-1872) “No-ho-mun-ya” (One Who Gives No Attention), Iowa warrior, Smithsonian...

Running Antelope – Thathoka Inyanke

  © by Jenness Cortez – Acrylic on mahogany panel, 24 by 24 inches Hunkpapa Sioux Chief 1821-1896, based on 1872 photograph by Alexander Gardner Price upon request   Running Antelope – Thathoka Inyanke was the first and only American Indian to...

Window on the West

© by Jenness Cortez – Acrylic on mahogany panel, 42 by 60 inches In 1801, when Thomas Jefferson became president, two out of every three Americans lived within fifty miles of the Atlantic Ocean. To our west, France owned the vast, largely unexplored Louisiana...

Country Morning

© by Jenness Cortez – Acrylic on mahogany panel, 15 by 20 inc hes Jenness Cortez (1944-     ) An Early Morning Ride George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Metal cased clock by...