Shawnee Mountain Gallery

11/24/2024

"South Park Snow" above is an oil painting by Vincent Tolpo. A print of this painting is our Holiday Gift to you.
Feel free to download and print up to 5 inch x7 inch
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS.
SHAWNEE MOUNTAIN GALLERY IS OPEN,
AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU.
We are both doing well, and our studios are still very productive. You can make Holiday or Anytime Purchases:
• in person
• by phone, 303-838-6106; shipping is now about 25%
• by email [email protected]
• Buy Gift Certificateor/Cards We accept cash, check, or charge.
• At our online store at www.ShawneeMountainGallery.com.
• On Etsy find a limited selection of Shawnee Mountain Pottery and Carolyn’s jewelry at Shawnee Mountain Arts.
Please call ahead for an appointment, directions, and instructions. Or, drop by at your convenience. Carolyn's jewelry is made of antique beads and semi-precious stones. Our pottery is hand-made studio pottery high-fired stoneware, oven-proof, microwavable, dishwasher safe, and lead-free. We also make art pieces by special order to suit your space and specifications. Our approach to our art is personal and unique which makes each piece an original design.
We wish you a safe, very warm, and cordial Holiday Season and New Year,
Vincent and Carolyn Lee Tolpo
Shawnee Mountain Gallery
55918 US Highway 285, PO Box 134, Shawnee, Colorado 80475 USA

07/05/2024

We hope you have a Sparkling Fourth of July in 2024. This year, our 43rd as Shawnee Mountain Gallery, we celebrate with our "Amaryllis July Surprise." Amaryllis is a strong and bold heroine from Greek mythology. It also means SPARKLING a perfect word for today when we celebrate the 248th birthday of our Constitution.

03/17/2024

Kenower Weimar Bash was born in Canada as a US citizen. He attended most of his schools in Detroit . In 1934 he began studying medicine at the University of Toronto , but in 1936 he switched to psychology at the University of Chicago , where he received a Master of Science in 1937 . Impressed by Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology, he came to Switzerland in 1938 and began studying medicine at the University of Zurich . At the same time he completed a training analysis with Jung and Carl Alfred Meier .....Bash spent the last eight years of his life in Stäfa on Lake Zurich , interrupted by trips to the Middle East and to conferences . He died of pancreatic cancer in 1986 .
Bash was one of the initiators of the International Rorschach Society .

Rorschach Test, Projective Methods, Rorschach, Personality, Assessment, Science, Psychology

03/17/2024

We are snowed in. The sun will open us up in a few days as the snow melts away. I look forward to my third day of shoveling,. I only do two hours a day to conserve the old bod.

03/16/2024

What happens when there is a visit to SMG. It is a mystery.....

01/18/2024

Young friends visiting from points east who were graduates of the prestigious Alfred U. Ceramics and working for the great Wayne Higby stopped by our modest Shawnee Mountain Gallery and asked if we use local clays. I said yes and explained about the clay slips we use on our landscape pottery. It particular I described the yellowish green mottled slip from Muddy Pass near Steamboat Springs. I shared how we dug under some large broadleaf plants to discover the clay that we had observed in road cuts coming up the pass. Here at SMG it is more about the results of studied work than the thrill of sensual pleasure. Although ...?

12/28/2023

Hwy 285 is dry and our parking lot is passable. The Pottery is hot and the Jewelry is cool. Or. you could visit our Etsy store at ShawneeMountainArts. Or our ShawneeMountainGallery.com store at https://sites.google.com/site/artspiralcom/home/shawnee-mountain-gallery-online-store

11/28/2023

"Long's Peak" is an oil painting by Vincent Tolpo. It is our Holiday Gift to you. Feel free to download and print up to 5 inch x7 inch

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS.

SHAWNEE MOUNTAIN GALLERY IS OPEN, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU.

Well, it has been another year of challenges for all of us! We reopened our gallery in March, 2023. Unfortunately, Covid has returned and we request masks. We are wearing ours. We are both doing well, and our studios are still very productive. You can make Holiday or Anytime Purchases:
in person
by phone, 303-838-6106; shipping is now about 20%
by email [email protected]
Gift Certificates/Cards are available. We accept cash, check, or charge.
At our online store www.ShawneeMountainGallery.com website.
On Etsy find a limited selection of Shawnee Mountain Pottery and Carolyn’s jewelry at : Shawnee Mountain Arts.
You may call ahead for an appointment, directions, and instructions. We request masks for admittance to the inside Gallery. Carolyn's jewelry is made of antique beads and semi-precious stones. The pottery is high-fired stoneware, oven-proof, microwavable, and lead-free. We also make pieces by special order to suit your specifications. Our approach to our art is personal and unique which makes each piece an original design.

We wish you a safe, very warm, and cordial Holiday Season and New Year,

Vincent and Carolyn Lee Tolpo

Shawnee Mountain Gallery
303-838-6106
55918 US Highway 285, PO Box 134, Shawnee, Colorado 80475 USA

09/28/2023

Aspens. We enjoy the orange ones. These can be seen on the way up to Kenosha pass on HWY 285. Our home highway. Stop by and see us at 55918 US Hwy 285. 2 tenths of a mile east of mile marker 217. Enjoy.

09/23/2023

Be sure to click on the print tab at the top of this page. The piece is 14 x 17 but you can get a digital print any size up to 24 or 30 inches or as small at 8x12. The actual print was sold out 30 years ago.

Saatchi Art is pleased to offer the art print, "Sundrop," by Vincent Tolpo. Original Printmaking: Screenprinting on Paper. Size is 0 H x 0 W x 0 in.

09/17/2023

The daily average Covid cases is now 316 a day in Colorado. We'll start asking customers to wear masks again. The surge is upon us. We had a nice 4 month rest and now our guard must be up again. Work goes on, here is the yellow bird from the side of a "Window"
vase