" SOLDIERS FALLING INTO CAMP "
Tom Gilleon - June 2011
50 s/n Giclee Canvas
17" x 34" $625
25 s/n Giclee Canvas
37" x 74" $2950
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" CARDINAL NUMBER III "
Tom Gilleon - Sept. 2010
75 s/n Giclee Canvas
8" x 16"
$210
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" MEN OF HONOR "
Tom Gilleon-
June 2010
35 s/n Giclee Canvas
17" x 34" $625
15 s/n Giclee Canvas
37" x 74" $2750
“’All men of honor are of the same tribe’ is a quote from a Native American
I came across one time doing some research,” says Tom Gilleon.
“There are so many noteworthy layers in that notion that I never forgot it.
The painting itself is a visual take on the concept rather than anything historical.
I used bold primary colors, red, yellow and blue, to augment that sense of strength. These men are from different bands, but their sense of principle, of right and
wrong, makes them of one tribe. Even with the hardships they endured at
the hands of the nation the flag represents, the flag bearer’s sense of honor
does not allow the emblem the indignity of touching the ground."
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" TRIBAL TRIPARTITE "
Tom Gilleon - Feb. 2010
35 s/n Giclee Canvas
17" x 34" Email-price
15 s/n Giclee Canvas
37" x 74" Email-price
“Tribes on the plains survived by forming alliances, not unlike the
nation-states through history,” begins Tom. “The tipi was very universal
in nature, as were the ways of the Plains Indians’ lives. You’d be hard pressed
at a glance to know whether one or multiple tribes were present in a village
and sometimes something as minor as an entrance flap representing the style
of one tribe as opposed to another was needed to determine it. Tribal Tripartite
is as much about the shared necessities and influences of Plains’ life as it is
color and design.”
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" TWO STARS LODGING "
Tom Gilleon - April 2010
100 s/n Giclee Canvas
12" x 12"
$245
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" EARLY SNOW "
Tom Gilleon - Oct. 2009
35 s/n Giclee Canvas
20" x 20"
$450
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" MEN AT ARMS "
Tom Gilleon - Nov. 2009
25 s/n Giclee Canvas
28" x 28"
$845
“Plains Indians had a very strong color sense to their art and red was a war
color,” says Tom Gilleon. “The two shields to the top and left are inspired
by the Ghost Dance. The one on the right is a more typical war shield.
In the center of this group of warriors and shields sits Red Cloud. He was
one of the few tribal leaders that actually forced the U.S. government to
seek peace because the Sioux had the upper hand. He repeatedly defeated
their forces in battle, at one point forcing the closing down of the forts
along the Bozeman Trail.”
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" TWO GUNS "
Tom Gilleon - June 2009
25 s/n Giclee Canvas
28" x 28"
$845
R. Tom Gilleon is one of a handful of artists that can look back at 2009 as a year that all the hard work and persistence paid dividends. I don’t believe a month passed that an art magazine did not choose him for its cover, run a feature story or review a show. He was the 2009 Jackson Hole Arts Festival’s Feature Artist. In a year that that desirability and potential value drove the art market, owning one of Gilleon’s contemporary western paintings rose to the top of many collectors’ lists.
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" RED BULL ll "
Tom Gilleon - Nov. 2009
5 s/n Giclee Canvas
20" x 20"
$450
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