" MAINTAINING THE RIGHT " 1500 s/n Offset Litho 20"x 30" $175 Of all the more than 200 ?Mountie? pictures Arnold Friberg has painted through the years, this one stands alone! For while the former ones were created first for use on calendars and advertising for The Northwest Paper Company, this special commemorative subject was painted purely and exclusively for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Along with its limited edition prints, this new painting was officially commissioned by ?E? Division NCO?s Mess expressly to honor the 125th anniversary year of the R.C.M.P. |
" PUFFING BILLY " 2500 s/n Offset Litho 18 "x 23" $175 Pictured here is "Climax," a unique steam locomotive manufactured by Climax Locomotive Company in Corty, Pennsylvania. Strictly a workhorse locomotive, it is instantly recognizable from its slanted cylinders, and the low gearing gives it the extra power for pulling heavy loads of timber. Also, the peculiar looking road bed - instead of rock, they utilized the most plentiful available material, timber. |
 " THE TRAIL ENDS AT THE SEA " 1750 s/n Offset Litho 18 "x 23" $185 It's been a long search, to the shores of the ocean, but the Mountie always gets his man. When we look closer, we see that the wanted man as pictured on the poster is working in the background, and we understand the dilemma of the stevedores who aren't sure if they will turn in their fellow worker. The reward poster is historically authentic, as is the detailed ship, the Star of Alaska, which plied the coastal waters from Alaska southward in the glory days of sailing ships. |
" TALES OF THE FORCE " 500 s/n Canvas 20"x 30" $835 This image introduced Arnold Friberg's art to Canadians. It quickly became a sold out edition, and is now a highly sought after secondary market print. Looking into the rugged face of the storyteller, you feel the spirit that has made the RCMP famous throughout the world and an inspiration to all boys. (A personal note: Many people don't know that the young boy in the ski sweater is Arnold Friberg's son, Frank.) |
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" END OF THE DAY " 2000 s/n Offset Litho 18"x 30" $225 Says Friberg, "I have painted my share of Apaches chasing the Butterfield stagecoach, for violent action was a part of Western history. But as the years roll away, I find I would rather pic, ture the peace, the distance, the mysterious beauty of the West. I have never lost my boyhood sense of wonder about the deep northern forest and the mystical Sonoran desert. It is my real and most transcendent place of worship; my deepest reverence is felt as I witness the evidence of the hand of the Creator in all-things.
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" HER HERO " 1500 s/n Offset Litho 18"x 32" $255 From first-hand observation of Indian camp life, Friberg here has recorded many richly authentic details of the tepees - stakes, lacing, pins, medicine bundles, painted designs; and the orderly interlocking of lodge poles over the smoke holes. Also stretched hides and meat drying racks, all giving a complete picture of a people at home with nature. The small girl in the tepee doorway looks with admiration upon the macho brave on his strong horse.
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" IN THE WATERS OF MANITOU " 1500 s/n Offset Litho 22"x 32" $255 Available from the publisher. Early in the 1940's, Friberg saw "the most splendid Indian birchbark canoe" in a Chicago museum. He made a sketch and used it as a basis for several paintings, but finally wanted to capture it more richly as the subject of a large new painting. When he returned to the museum, they had long since discontinued the exhibit and the canoe was found dirty and falling apart in storage. It lives on in its full glory in this painting, afloat in a calm lake the Indians considered sacred. "Manitou" is the Indian name for God.
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" INTO NEW COUNTRY " 250 s/n Giclee Canvas 25"x 40" $1495 Into New Country depicts a setting high on top of the rugged and awe-inspiring Western mountains which leads you down to fertile canyon expanses and into crystal blue waterways below. Into New Country shows a Native American people seeking new beginnings, heading into undiscovered territory, seeking a new country free to live their way of life without regrets of the past. Well known for his grasp of dramatic and emotional artistic expression masterfully painted on canvas, Arnold Friberg considers himself, a storyteller. He paints the story, but it is up to us to seek out the inner meaning that is so painstakingly brush stroked into every Friberg painting.
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" INTO THE VALLEY " 1250 s/n Offset Litho 18"x 32" $275 Indian men wanted their women to present a fine appearance on horseback. As a result, women's horse gear was much more elaborate and decorated than the men's. Here Friberg has pictured a splendid procession of a tribe on the move, with richly beaded saddles, chest bands, and cruppers on horses drawing burdens by means of lodge poles laced into a "travois," ridden by squaws carrying papooses on their backs in highly decorated cradleboards.
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" PARLEY IN THE FOREST " 1500 s/n Offset Litho 22"x 32" $275 Western art on archival Lithograph paper."This painting does not illustrate a particular event, but rather a parley as it might have occurred countless times. It is a meeting of foes in battle, but who respect each other as honorable fighting men. Notable are the strong, splendid horses"
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" THUNDER WAGON " 1250 s/n Offset Litho 18"x 30" $275 Rich drama, brilliant color and historic detail combine in "Thunder Wagon" to capture a classic encounter between the funnel-stacked steam locomotive and the denizens of the West as only Arnold Friberg could.
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" LONG TRAIL WEST " 1500 s/n Offset Litho 18"x 30" $275 Life! Life in all its splendor, drama, and beauty. This image tells the story of the hopes and fears of real people, real struggles, with dignity and power. An image that touches the heart, as well as the eye.
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" DINNER COMPANIONS " 1500 s/n Offset Litho 18"x 30" $275 This dramatic painting is not at all imaginary, but springs directly from Arnold Fribergs nostalgic memories of his boyhood in the Arizona desert.With his own unique mastery, Friberg has captured the intimacy, the mysterious enchantment of campfire light, the very scent and mystical spell of evening in the Sonoran desert, and the sturdy camaraderie of the kind of men who slept mostly under the stars.
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" UNCERTAIN ODDS " 1250 s/n Offset Litho 18"x 30" $265 "Uncertain Odds" illustrates the race of man against machine, side by side. Both image and title proclaim that technology was speeding down the track and it was uncertain how mankind would fare in the end. Only time would tell.
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" TROUBLE FOR BUTTERFIELD " 1900 s/n Offset Litho 20"x 32" $225 Rolling west out of Lordsburg, New Mexico, the Butterfield stagecoaches soon raced through the most dangerous point in the road, Apache Pass in the southeast corner of Arizona Territory. For it was here that apache warriors fell upon many an ill-fated coach. In this strong picture, Friberg has caught the intense drama of such an attack and the driver's desperate struggle to survive. |
" YIELDING THE RIGHT OF WAY " 1250 s/n Offset Litho 22"x 30" $265 Western painting, Yielding the Right of Way, is one of the three Light Iron Trilogy Series.
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" PARTING OF THE RED SEA " Offset Lithograph 7500 s/n 14"x 38" $225 And Moses stretched forth his staff over the sea. And the waters were parted to open a highway for the escape of Israel. And the waters stood upright as an heap, as a wall on their left and on their right. This massive scene could never have been photographed in one view. In the motion picture this sequence is seen in many individual shots over several minutes' time. |
