1844
oil
canvas
From the collection of Denver Art Museum
Long Jakes; The Rocky Mountains Man is a 1844 oil by Charles Deas, a Hudson River School Movement work, held at Denver Art Museum.
This painting depicts a rugged-looking man riding a horse. He's dressed in a red shirt, green jacket, and a white hat, and he's holding a sword in his right hand. The horse is black with a white patch on its nose. The man appears to be a frontiersman or a mountain man, given his clothing and the landscape behind him. The background is a hazy, pinkish sky with mountains in the distance. The painting has a sense of realism to it, with attention to detail in the man's clothing and the horse's features. To learn more about the artist's use of light and shadow, look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
Charles Deas (December 22, 1818 – March 23, 1867) was an American painter noted for his oil paintings of Native Americans and fur trappers of the mid-19th century.
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