Glacier National Park 1942
Pen & Ink on Antique Map
George Bird Grinnell was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist and a co-founder of the Audubon Society and the Boone and Crockett Club. In the late 1800s, he was an early explorer of the area and a leader in the effort to create the Glacier National Park.
 
Grinnell and others established Glacier National Park in 1910 when President William Howard Taft signed the bill into law and established the country's 10th national park Glacier National Park is a 1,583 square mile wilderness area in Montana's Rocky Mountains, with glacier-carved peaks and valleys running to the Canadian border. 
 
As the park's unofficial mascots, Rocky Mountain Goats are commonly seen in Glacier National Park. They are often seen scaling steep cliffs with impressive agility. It's estimated that the park has one of the largest populations of mountain goats in the lower 48.
 
In many indigenous cultures, the mountain goat is revered as a symbol of resilience and adaptability. The ability of mountain goats to thrive in challenging alpine habitats has earned them admiration and respect as powerful and enduring creatures. The message in its behavior is to move through the rocky areas of life with grace and dignity.
 
Glacier National Park 1942
Pen & Ink on Antique Map
I combine antique atlas maps, the art of pen & ink drawing then using my version of stippling into my own creative perspectives. The background for this drawing of a Goat is on an original antique USGS topographical map of the Glacier National Park Texas map, which was published in 1942. It is framed with patinaed copper and measures approximately 35 X 40 inches.