The Western Art
of
Frank Allnutt

The Angel of Shavano
Digitally "dry-brushed" Giclee on stretched Artist's Canvas of a photo by Frank Allnutt.

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 Snow Angel of Mt. Shavano

Every year the Angel of Shavano appears on Mt. Shavano, a majestic 14,239 foot high peak west of Salida, Colorado.

Long ago, a peculiarly-shaped snow field spawned the legend of the Indian Princess and her loving devotion to her people. As the legend goes, there was draught in the land one year, and the lack of water would soon force the tribe to seek a new home far away. Undeterred, the Indian Princess hiked to the foot of the mountain to pray for rain.

The Indian God of Plenty called for her to sacrifice herself as an offering for rain so that her people might live. Thereafter, the Indian Princess appeared each spring as the Angel of Shavano. Longing for her people, her tears are said to be the melting snow that trickles down the mountain's slopes, turn into streams and make the valley fertile.

The Angel of Shavano appears in the late spring, and is best viewed from Salida, to the east.