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Gerry Metz |
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Gerry Metz is a painter and sculptor of Old West subjects. He was born, raised and educated in Chicago. Gerry was also a commercial artist and director of the Village Art School in Skokie, Illinois as well as an instructor of oil painting and life drawing at the Phoenix Art Museum. Gerry has traveled and painted the West for over 38 years dividing his time between Arizona and Jackson Hole. He has created numerous paintings and sculptures depicting the rugged beauty of the Rocky Mountains, Fur Trappers, Indians, & Ranch Life. The last 10 years, he has been concentrating his paintings on historical events of the Western Explorers, Fur Trappers & Indians, taking stories from the journals of Lewis & Clark, John Colter, Jim Bridger, & Indian Tribes including the Blackfeet, Shoshone, Sioux & Hadatsi. He has been traveling to the sites of these events gathering reference to create his historically accurate paintings. Gerry delights in painting from the heart to capture historical scenes with the clarity that places the viewer back in the 1800’s to a time when the west was being explored. He has won numerous awards for his paintings & is in prominent collections & museums around the world. Publications: Museum Collections: |
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"The Improbable Journey" During the past 10 years Gerry Metz has been
traveling the Lewis & Clark Trail accumulating reference material,
painting and sketching to produce a book detailing, through paintings,
their epic journey from St. Louis to the Pacific and back. This
book will highlight their travels with numerous paintings, sketches
and bronzes of their most important and exciting moments, along with
showing the hardships they endured and the beauty they observed.
Gerry's thoughts along the way will be mixed in with actual quotes
from the Lewis & Clark journals The limited edition is offered at $2,950. The unlimited edition is $85 per copy. You may reserve yours at the gallery now! |
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All of the pieces below are Gerry's original works for sale that are also displayed in the book. |
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