CHARLES PARTRIDGE ADAMS (1858 -1942)
The Ten peaks ( (3,424m- 11,234ft)
Canada (Alberta)
In Moraine Lake and Peaks, oil on canvas
The Ten peaks ( (3,424m- 11,234ft)
Canada (Alberta)
In Moraine Lake and Peaks, oil on canvas
The mountains
Valley of the Ten Peaks (Vallée des Dix Pics) is a valley in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, which is crowned by ten notable peaks and also includes Moraine Lake. The valley can be reached by following the Moraine Lake road near Lake Louise. The ten peaks were originally named by Samuel Allen, an early explorer of the region, who simply referred to them by using the numerals from one to ten in the Stoney First Nations Language. He may have learned the terms from his Native American guides, who helped him with the horses. The Nakoda–also known as the Stoney Indians–is a tribe whose culture and dialect are closely related to that of the Assiniboine First Nation, from whom they are believed to have separated in the mid-1700s, and who roamed large parts of the prairies and mountains of western Alberta well into British Columbia. The secluded Valley of the Ten Peaks was part of their original homeland. Gradually, though, all but three of the mountains were renamed in honour of noteworthy individuals, including Allen himself.
Mount Hungabee was not included in the original peak list by Allen, even though it is higher than Wenkchemna Peak, the latter of which is really an extension of Hungabee.
The ten peaks, in order of how they are numbered from east to west, are:
Mount Fay /Heejee (3,235m-10,613ft); Mount Little /Num (3,088m- 10,131ft); Mount Bowlen / Yamnee (3,072m- 10,079ft); Tonsa (3,057m/ 10,030ft); Mount Perren / Sapta (3,051m- 10,010ft); Mount Allen / Shappee 3,310m- 10,860ft); Mount Tuzo / Shagowa (3,246m- 10,650ft); Deltaform Mountain/ Shakhnowa (3,424m- 11,234ft); Neptuak Mountain (3,233m- 10,607ft); Wenkchemna Peak (3,170m-10,401 ft)
The painter
Charles Partridge Adams was a largely self-taught American landscape artist who painted primarily in Colorado, and secondarily in California. Some paintings were also made in other Rocky Mountain states, the Pacific Northwest and Canada, and a few in Louisiana, the East Coast and Europe.
Adams is widely considered to have been Colorado’s finest landscape artist. He is best known for his stunning views of snowy mountain peaks in early morning or sunset light, or wreathed in storm clouds, and for his luminous sunset and twilight paintings of the river bottoms near Denver. His works show an intensely personal and poetic response to the Colorado mountains and plains, with unusual sensitivity to the changing effects of light, atmosphere and season.
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