Smith River in June - Unsigned

All posters are now available exclusively from Frame of Mind. Please purchase posters on their website. All other artwork is available on this website. Smith River in June is a poster commissioned by Montana State Parks. Please click here to watch a video about the creation of this poster. This poster has sold out.   Smith River in June   It is a river with the familiar and commonplace name of Smith that flows North by Northwest from its source in the mysteriously named Crazies’ and Castle mountains, flowing and carving a gorge between the Big Belt and the little Belt mountains it cuts, as Norman Maclean said, “through the basement of time”. I was able to float the Smith River this past June during the super moon. This would be the closest the moon would be to the earth in many years. It was my second time on the river, the first having been a snowy float in late May, 24 years before. I had made sketches and photographs on that first trip but the weather was challenging and I had not