"Northwest Missouri Wetlands"
"Northwest Missouri Wetlands"
15x24 pastel on paper
2013
$600 unframed / $750 after framing
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Here is the latest from the studio. A 15x24 inch pastel painting depicting scenery from an area of northwest Missouri's wetlands near the Missouri River known as Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, or by the locals---Squaw Creek. This piece was done from a reference photo I took during a spring paintout with the MVIS at the refuge. At the time, few groups of migrating birds (waterfowl) were visible. Most of the migration had already passed, allowing artists to focus on the landscape.
Information about the area.
Squaw Creek
National Wildlife Refuge is located in northwest Missouri near Mound City. The
refuge was established August 23, 1935 as an Executive Order 7156 by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt as a refuge feeding and breeding ground for migratory
birds and other wildlife. The refuge is 30 miles northwest of St. Joseph,
Missouri. It is 100 miles north of Kansas City, Missouri, and 100 miles south of
Omaha, Nebraska. The refuge includes 7,415 acres of wetlands, grasslands, and
forests along the eastern edge of the Missouri River floodplain . Overlooking
the refuge from the east, the Loess Hills habitat is a geological formation of
fine silt deposited after the past glacial period. The hills stretch from about
30 miles south of St. Joseph, Missouri, to extreme northern Iowa. Some of the
last parcels of native plants, of a once vast native prairie, can be found
here.
The refuge was officially named one of America’s top 500 Globally Important Bird Areas by the American Bird Conservancy in 2001. The Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network designated Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge a “Site of Regional Importance” in 2007.
For more information about the refuge, visit
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