Original Paintings
Immerse yourself in the vibrant beauty of the American West with Marianne Millar's captivating acrylic painting of pink hollyhock flowers, framed to perfection.
Original acrylic painting on high-quality birch wood board
Depicts vibrant pink hollyhock flowers with stunning detail
Gold leafed wood frame adds elegance and enhances the artwork's beauty
Bring the serene beauty of nature into your home with this exquisite piece, making every glance a moment of peaceful reflection.
Hollyhocks on Lujan Street
11” x 14”
Acrylic on Birch-wood board
Framed in gold leafed wood frame
This is a detailed study of delicate, pink hollyhock flowers that grew outside of my home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The hollyhock is actually not indigenous to the Southwest and was brought to New Mexico by Spanish settlers around the year 1598. Even so, the hollyhock is the unofficial flower of Santa Fe. Known as las varas de San José, these elegant plants were believed to represent the staff of St. Joseph and bring good luck. They seem to be able to grow anywhere and they grace the city of Santa Fe with their beautiful array of colors in the summer months. The first year that I moved into Santa Fe, I found these particular hollyhocks, before they had bloomed, growing beside my mailbox and started to tear them out thinking that they were weeds. Fortunately, my neighbor saw me and stopped me from destroying this beloved and iconic Santa Fe plant!
$ 675.00
Immerse yourself in the vibrant beauty of the American West with Marianne Millar's captivating acrylic painting of pink hollyhock flowers, framed to perfection.
Original acrylic painting on high-quality birch wood board
Depicts vibrant pink hollyhock flowers with stunning detail
Gold leafed wood frame adds elegance and enhances the artwork's beauty
Bring the serene beauty of nature into your home with this exquisite piece, making every glance a moment of peaceful reflection.
12” x 12” original acrylic painting on birch wood board in gold frame
Experience the unrivaled beauty of the Santa Fe sunset with La Caida del Sol. This original acrylic painting captures the enchanting glow of the sun setting over the Jemez Mountains.
Depicts the stunning Santa Fe sunset over the Jemez Mountains.
Vivid colors illuminate native sagebrush, delivering depth and atmosphere.
Bring the breathtaking beauty of the American West into your home with this stunning depiction of a Santa Fe sunset. Allow its vibrant colors and serene scene to inspire and soothe your daily life.
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La Caida del Sol
12” x 12”
Acrylic on Birch-wood board
Framed in Gold
New Mexico sunsets are exceptionally beautiful due to a combination of high altitude, low humidity, and clean, dry desert air, which minimizes light scattering and allows for brilliant, vibrant colors. The unique, expansive, and high-altitude landscape—often featuring distant mountains—provides a perfect, uncluttered canvas for a dramatic, daily palette of deep oranges, reds, and purples.
This westward view of the Jemez Mountains is just a couple of miles from my house and is one of my favorite spots to watch the setting of the sun.
$650.00
12” x 12” original acrylic painting on birch wood board in gold frame
Experience the unrivaled beauty of the Santa Fe sunset with La Caida del Sol. This original acrylic painting captures the enchanting glow of the sun setting over the Jemez Mountains.
Depicts the stunning Santa Fe sunset over the Jemez Mountains.
Vivid colors illuminate native sagebrush, delivering depth and atmosphere.
Bring the breathtaking beauty of the American West into your home with this stunning depiction of a Santa Fe sunset. Allow its vibrant colors and serene scene to inspire and soothe your daily life.
Click on Photo to view Full Image
40” x 30” Acrylic on Canvas
At one time, the Otoes and Missourias, along with the Winnebago and Iowa Tribes, were once part of a single tribe that lived in the Great Lakes Region of the United States. In the 16th century, the Iowa, Otoe, and Missouria broke away from that tribe and moved to the south and west. Eventually the Otoe moved to the general area of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas and became known as one of the Prairie tribes along with the Missouria, Omaha, Iowa, Osage, Quapaw and Ponca tribes.
This Otoe man wears two important pieces of ceremonial clothing, distinctive among the Western Great Lakes and Prairie cultures, the otter skin turban and the grizzly bear claw necklace.
Prairie men commonly wore open-top turbans of various animal pelts, including otter, beaver, cougar, fox, skunk, and wolf. Otter was universally prized, not only for the beauty of its fur, but also for philosophical reasons. Indians observed that this charismatic creature occupied itself both in water and on land, and therefore deemed it to be a liaison between aquatic and land beings.
When worn, in characteristic fashion, the head end of the pelt is oriented clockwise around the wearer’s head. Native peoples considered this direction as “sunwise”–the path the sun takes as it daily courses its way across the sky. A fully beaded medallion and beaded human hand decorate the front of the turban. There are at least two explanations that can be offered for the use of hand symbolism among the Prairie tribes. The first version declares that the wearer had killed an enemy in hand-to-hand combat. The second suggests the presence or blessings of Wah-kon-tah, the Great Spirit, and represents the open hand of God.
The grizzly bear claw necklace was an ornament that represented high esteem and accomplishment for senior men of the prairie tribes. Grizzly bears had once roamed the river valleys of the prairies west of the Mississippi. Their claws grew to exceptional length in this grassy environment. Now that the range of the grizzly bear has shrunk to the rocky, mountainous regions of the west, their claws are much shorter. Prairie men used only four claws from each forepaw of the grizzly, so that four grizzly bears, at least, contributed to the over 30 claws used for this necklace. Otter fur is wrapped around the necklace and an entire otter pelt is used to create a long, narrow “tail” or “drop” that hangs off the back of the necklace. Large spherical glass beads made in Venice and acquired from traders were used as spacers between the claws. Three large pendants representing the cardinal directions decorate the front of the necklace.
The Otoe
40” x 30”
Acrylic on Canvas
At one time, the Otoes and Missourias, along with the Winnebago and Iowa Tribes, were once part of a single tribe that lived in the Great Lakes Region of the United States. In the 16th century, the Iowa, Otoe, and Missouria broke away from that tribe and moved to the south and west. Eventually the Otoe moved to the general area of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas and became known as one of the Prairie tribes along with the Missouria, Omaha, Iowa, Osage, Quapaw and Ponca tribes.
This Otoe man wears two important pieces of ceremonial clothing, distinctive among the Western Great Lakes and Prairie cultures, the otter skin turban and the grizzly bear claw necklace.
Prairie men commonly wore open-top turbans of various animal pelts, including otter, beaver, cougar, fox, skunk, and wolf. Otter was universally prized, not only for the beauty of its fur, but also for philosophical reasons. Indians observed that this charismatic creature occupied itself both in water and on land, and therefore deemed it to be a liaison between aquatic and land beings.
When worn, in characteristic fashion, the head end of the pelt is oriented clockwise around the wearer’s head. Native peoples considered this direction as “sunwise”–the path the sun takes as it daily courses its way across the sky. A fully beaded medallion and beaded human hand decorate the front of the turban. There are at least two explanations that can be offered for the use of hand symbolism among the Prairie tribes. The first version declares that the wearer had killed an enemy in hand-to-hand combat. The second suggests the presence or blessings of Wah-kon-tah, the Great Spirit, and represents the open hand of God.
The grizzly bear claw necklace was an ornament that represented high esteem and accomplishment for senior men of the prairie tribes. Grizzly bears had once roamed the river valleys of the prairies west of the Mississippi. Their claws grew to exceptional length in this grassy environment. Now that the range of the grizzly bear has shrunk to the rocky, mountainous regions of the west, their claws are much shorter. Prairie men used only four claws from each forepaw of the grizzly, so that four grizzly bears, at least, contributed to the over 30 claws used for this necklace. Otter fur is wrapped around the necklace and an entire otter pelt is used to create a long, narrow “tail” or “drop” that hangs off the back of the necklace. Large spherical glass beads made in Venice and acquired from traders were used as spacers between the claws. Three large pendants representing the cardinal directions decorate the front of the necklace.
$ 4000.00
40” x 30” Acrylic on Canvas
At one time, the Otoes and Missourias, along with the Winnebago and Iowa Tribes, were once part of a single tribe that lived in the Great Lakes Region of the United States. In the 16th century, the Iowa, Otoe, and Missouria broke away from that tribe and moved to the south and west. Eventually the Otoe moved to the general area of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas and became known as one of the Prairie tribes along with the Missouria, Omaha, Iowa, Osage, Quapaw and Ponca tribes.
This Otoe man wears two important pieces of ceremonial clothing, distinctive among the Western Great Lakes and Prairie cultures, the otter skin turban and the grizzly bear claw necklace.
Prairie men commonly wore open-top turbans of various animal pelts, including otter, beaver, cougar, fox, skunk, and wolf. Otter was universally prized, not only for the beauty of its fur, but also for philosophical reasons. Indians observed that this charismatic creature occupied itself both in water and on land, and therefore deemed it to be a liaison between aquatic and land beings.
When worn, in characteristic fashion, the head end of the pelt is oriented clockwise around the wearer’s head. Native peoples considered this direction as “sunwise”–the path the sun takes as it daily courses its way across the sky. A fully beaded medallion and beaded human hand decorate the front of the turban. There are at least two explanations that can be offered for the use of hand symbolism among the Prairie tribes. The first version declares that the wearer had killed an enemy in hand-to-hand combat. The second suggests the presence or blessings of Wah-kon-tah, the Great Spirit, and represents the open hand of God.
The grizzly bear claw necklace was an ornament that represented high esteem and accomplishment for senior men of the prairie tribes. Grizzly bears had once roamed the river valleys of the prairies west of the Mississippi. Their claws grew to exceptional length in this grassy environment. Now that the range of the grizzly bear has shrunk to the rocky, mountainous regions of the west, their claws are much shorter. Prairie men used only four claws from each forepaw of the grizzly, so that four grizzly bears, at least, contributed to the over 30 claws used for this necklace. Otter fur is wrapped around the necklace and an entire otter pelt is used to create a long, narrow “tail” or “drop” that hangs off the back of the necklace. Large spherical glass beads made in Venice and acquired from traders were used as spacers between the claws. Three large pendants representing the cardinal directions decorate the front of the necklace.
