Artist Joseph Trakimas

FASO Artist Website: http://www.artofjoetrakimas.com Year Born: N/A Price Range: $1,600.00 - $8,500.00 (This price range was estimated with limited info and may be inaccurate) More info on Joseph Trakimas's Canvoo profile Follow this artist

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Biography

  Joe Trakimas was born in Toms River New Jersey and raised in the small town of Denton Maryland. Coming from a rural setting, he came to appreciate the beauty of the countryside around him. The collage of fields and hardwood forests was his playground and inspired his visual senses. At a young age, Joe became enamored with primitive living and the native people that had inhabited the land of the past. He began making his own traditional archery equipment and this is when his interests reached a new level. As he researched the making of bows and arrows of the Native Americans, his fascination with their culture and lifestyle grew. He became especially interested in the Plains Indians. As a high school senior he received the Maryland distinguished scholarship, competing with artists throughout the state wanting to continue their art education in Maryland, giving him the encouragement to pursue his passion for art. After graduating from Towson State University in 1996 with a degree in art, he came to Montana to pursue this interest and paint the rolling plains, expansive sky and its people. Montana gave him an endless supply of winding rivers snaking through pine filled mountains, forgotten barns situated in a sage filled prairie and abundant wildlife to paint and admire. His primary focus was the negative space created from the branches and foliage of the ponderosa pine and his depictions of their grandeur became notable in his paintings.
  He continued his interest in creating authentically made Native American headdress, weapons, shields and clothing, primarily dating back to the mid 1800’s Apsaroke (Crow) Indians. As his props and understanding of their culture expanded, he was able to paint the subject that had long peaked his interest. He developed many friendships on the Crow reservation and with his new [...]

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