Pacific Northwest Landscape

Beautiful Pacific Northwest landscape featuring Mt. Baker.
Watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.

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by James Williamson

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Price

$1,800

Dimensions

24.000 x 20.000 inches

Title

Pacific Northwest Landscape

Artist

James Williamson

Medium

Painting - Watercolor

Description

Beautiful Pacific Northwest landscape featuring Mt. Baker.
Watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.

Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists

Internationally acclaimed landscape, wildlife and maritime artist James R. Williamson has created a new body of work with masterful paintings expressing feelings of history deeply rooted in our rural heritage.

The movement from rural to urban living has left much of our record of rural history abandoned, decaying destroyed by natural elements and all but forgotten. Mr. Williamson’s goal is to preserve landscapes, specific buildings and other structures, automobiles and machinery through nostalgic and even romantic representations of our collective past.

He has employed artistic license in some paintings that combine structures, machinery and landscape elements into one painting to achieve an aesthetic composition. He has created artwork that is all about our rural heritage. Many of his illustrations of important machinery such as tractors, vehicles and maritime themes of working vessels represent a dedicated attention to detail and faithful representation of the subject.

Mr. Williamson’s illustrations include a wide range of images. Paintings of rugged mountain peaks, lush forests, wild rivers, coastal and inland shores, the beauty of wildlife, historic tractors and machinery, historic and contemporary maritime subjects that illustrate tall ships, sail boats, tugboats, merchant vessels plus military themes.

Mr. Williamson’s artwork celebrates nature and human ingenuity of machines that have transformed life on Earth. His paintings are homage to our existence and interaction with nature.

Pacific Northwest Landscape rural heritage reveals his goal to bring joy and inspiration through paintings of nostalgic, vintage tractors, trucks, windmills, barns and associated maritime subjects. He uses his brush to tell a story that strikes a chord of familiarity and inspires the viewer to learn more.

Mt. Baker is located in Whatcom County, Washington State, United States.
Mt. Baker is a 10,778 - ft., snow-covered peak, 27 miles east of Bellingham at the headwaters of the Nooksack and Baker rivers, central Whatcom County. The mountain supports 12 glaciers and 44 sq. miles of ice fields. On April 30, 1792, the name was chosen by Capt. George Vancouver for one of his officers who discovered the peak, 3rd Lieut. Joseph Baker. A number of other names had been previously used by Indians and explorers.

Koma-Kulshan Nooksack Indian name meaning White, shining, steep mountain.

Koma-Kulshan Lummi Indian name meaning Shot at the point or the place that was pierced. Referring to an eruption that shattered the once conical peak of this volcano. According to historic records, an Indian had seen fires on Mt. Baker in 1820, and a tradition of his race is to the effect that this mountain was formerly much higher and that a tremendous explosion threw down the entire south side. Eruptions had covered the whole country with ashes and all the fish died and the country was on fire for miles around.

Quck-sman-ik is a Nooksack Indian name meaning White Rock.

P-kowitz is a Clallam Indian name meaning White Mountain.

Ko-ma-el is a Skagit Indian name.

Gran Montana de Carmelo, Mt. Baker was named by Ensign Manual Quimper of the Spanish Navy in 1790 for a resemblance to the white robes of Carmilite monks. Poetically translates to Great White Watcher.
Kulshan is a Skagit Indian name meaning, Foot that has been frozen.

Mt. Baker was active six times between 1843 and 1880 - and today, 2012, occasionally sends up plumes of steam.

Whatcom County This county in northwest Washington is bounded on the north by British Columbia; on the east by Okanogan County; on the south by Skagit County; and on the west by Puget Sound. It contains 2,151 square miles. On March 9, 1854, the county was created by the Territorial Legislature from a portion of Island County. Township government exists in 25 townships. The name derives from the Lummi Indian word What-coom, meaning noisy, rumbling water, as applied to Whatcom Falls located near the waterfront, within the city of Bellingham. From older Lummi dialect pronunciation, the name should be spelled N-wh-ah-tk-hm.

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