Painting in Rocky Mountain National Park

Fall in the Moraine Oil on Canvas 18 x 24” John Hulsey

Ann and I arrived at the William Allen White cabin in the early evening just in time to witness the setting sun pouring over the peaks of the Front Range and sending luminescent light shafts of Naples yellow down upon Moraine Park. This would be our view from the cabin for the next two weeks, and what a spectacular view it is, in any hour of any day. If one could build a cabin anywhere in the entire Park, this would rank among the most desirable locations for sheer magnificence of scenery. My immediate impression upon gaining the porch after the steep walk up from the “Reserved for the Artist” parking spot near the road was that one could simply remain on the porch for two weeks and paint a series of landscapes of the view, like Hokusai’s “100 Views of Mt Fuji”.