Pikes Peak, America’s Mountain

By Jack Denton

It has been an extremely fulfilling experience of six years to set up my easel and work on location to interpret the grandeur of Pikes Peak. In 2015, three years into this painting series, I became resolved to complete one hundred canvases of America’s Mountain and document it with a book.

And now in 2018, after many seasons in the making and fifty years as a landscape painter, I can truly know that this visual journey has been an artistic project of a lifetime—a come to the mountain experience!

My essential epiphany from this epic endeavor is that Pikes Peak, although an enormous historic granite mountain located in semi-arid region of Colorado, quite often resembles an oceanic rugged coastline due to dynamic atmospherics—a marvelous irony because the peak was thrust upward eons ago from the ocean floor.

Pikes Peak’s massive size and beauty in all seasons is pure joy for my artist soul. I invite you to see America’s Mountain through my eyes!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984567321

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Copyright © 2019 by Jack Denton. 783315

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Rev. date: 02/13/2019

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Pikes Peak, America’s Mountain

100 paintings by Jack Denton

This book is

dedicated, in loving memory, to my parents, Nadine and Jesse Denton.

A Special Thank You

To Debi, for her love, her encouragement, and her patience that made this book possible.

To Linda and David Muth, who shared great expertise and support.

To Jayne Hutchins, Ann Dickey, Kevin Dickey, Ann Nichols, Ruth Obee, Scott Marble, Chris Clothier, Jim and Jeanie George, Bonnie Lapora, Scott Leifer, Herald and Naomi Walton, Karen Plaskie, Bill Muth, Tia and Ron Price,

Manitou Springs Heritage Center,

Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum,

Pikes Peak Library District Special Collections, Garden of the Gods Visitor and Nature Center.

Preface

It has been an extremely fulfilling experience of six years to set up my easel and work on location to interpret the grandeur of Pikes Peak. In 2015, three years into this painting series, I resolved to complete one hundred canvases of America’s Mountain and document it with a book. And now in 2018, after many seasons in the making and fifty years as a landscape painter, I can truly know that this visual journey has been an artistic project of a lifetime—a come-to-the-mountain experience! My essential epiphany from this epic endeavor is