Shawnee Mountain Gallery

Shawnee Mountain Gallery Artists Vincent & Carolyn L Tolpo opened Shawnee Mountain Gallery, Studios, and Pottery in 1981. Th Special orders are welcome.

This significant historic structure was built in 1904 and is part of the Shawnee Historic District listed on the National Historic Register. Shawnee Mountain Gallery offers unique one-of-a-kind art in many media. Visitors are welcome to talk with the artists or visit the pottery and see work in progress. Vincent’s popular landscape pottery shows the Contemporary Western terrain and mountains. Nat

ural clay slips made of soil samples indigenous to the region are fired onto the pottery. Carolyn and Vincent also make art pottery, open-stock dinnerware, and functional work. The pottery is oxidation fired 2291 F. The pottery is microwavable, ovenproof, lead-free, and dishwasher safe. Carolyn’s designer jewelry features antique beads and semi-precious stones. Her three collections are Heirloom, Classic, and International. The visiting public enjoys the wildflower gardens featuring abstract / assemblage sculptures created by the Tolpos. Tolpo custom art is found in public, corporate and private collections around the world. Art galleries, consultants, and fine retail shops throughout the United States represent their pottery, jewelry, paintings, prints, fibers, metal, and mixed-media artworks. Directions: Located just .2 miles east of mile-marker 217 on US HWY 285, the gallery is 5 miles west of Bailey. On the south side of the road watch for the gallery signs in front of historic Shawnee Mountain Gallery.

"South Park Snow" above is an oil painting by Vincent Tolpo. A print of this painting is our Holiday Gift to you.Feel fr...
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

We hope you have a Sparkling Fourth of July in 2024. This year, our 43rd as Shawnee Mountain Gallery, we celebrate with ...
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.

Kenower Weimar Bash was born in Canada as a US citizen. He attended most of his schools in Detroit . In 1934 he began st...
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

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 shovel...
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.....

Young friends visiting from points east who were graduates of the prestigious Alfred U. Ceramics and working for the gre...
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 ...?

"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...
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

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 ...
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.

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...
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.

The daily average Covid cases is now 316 a day in Colorado. We'll start asking customers to wear masks again. The surge ...
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

Address

55918 US Highway 285
Shawnee, CO
80421

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 6pm

Telephone

+13038386106

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