Frank Allnutt Art: Indian Paintbrush

Dry-brushed giclee on canvas by Frank Allnutt of photo courtesy Gary M. Stolz/USFWS.Canvases, in select sizes, are available flat, or stretched on wooden stretcher bars, with optional Hand-Crafted, Beetle-Killed Pine Frame similar to the one above. Frame adds approximately 6" to both height and width of stretched canvas. Flat canvas has a minimum 2" white border to facilitate stretching, and is shipped rolled in a mailing tube. Frank Allnutt's giclees are individual digital enhancements of computer-scanned photos. Vivid colors and brush strokes are created to emulate fine paintings. We use eight Ultrachrome K3 pigmented ink colors with lightfast rating of 108 years. Images are printed in high-resolution on artist's canvas and museum-varnished to further help protect against ultraviolet rays and humidity, and to preserve the color values.

Legend of the Indian Paintbrush

Little Gopher has a gift. . . he can paint beautiful images of his people. One day he has a dream in which he sees a white buckskin painted with beautiful colors, much like a sunset. Little Gopher tries his hardest to capture these colors in his paintings, but never is satisfied with the results. One night he hears a voice telling him to take the white buckskin to the place where he watches the sun set, and he does. There he finds paintbrushes filled with the colors of the sunset, sticking out of the ground. He paints the most beautiful colors on his buckskin! The next day, on the hillside, were beautiful flowers, for the brushes had become plants which bloom every spring to this day!

Dance of the Indian Paintbrush Giclee