Mount Burgess Reflections - Original Acrylic - 18" X 24"
Here is one of the new pieces I've just finished. Mount Burgess is located in Yoho National Park, West of Banff and Lake Louise. It is located in the southwest buttress of Burgess Pass in the Emerald River and Kicking Horse River Valleys. In the foreground of the painting is Emerald Lake.
There is lots of history associated with this mountain including the famous Burgess Shale where the black shale bed has revealed unique fossils. Even today some of these fossil species have proven impossible to classify. Does the Mountain look familiar? It was on the back of the Canadian ten-dollar bill from 1954 to 1971. It is often informally called the "Ten Dollar Mountain". In 1984 UNESCO declared the area a World Heritage Site.
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