Covarrubias Collection

This Grand Canyon rock formation is directly across from the Hualapai Nation’s spectacular tourist destination, the Sky Walk, a vertigo challenging walk onto a glass bottomed lookout 4000 feet above the Colorado River in the western canyon.  The painting was created directly from a photograph by Arizona Veteran's Magazine photographer Dana Sill.  He photographed it during a trip hosted by the Hualapai Nation, including Jim's long time friends Philbert Watahomigie, Joel Querta, and Michael Whatoname.  That Veteran’s Day, Jim and Congressman Duncan Hunter were guest speakers for festivities on the Hualapai Reservation.

Just off the Orme Dugas turnoff on the road to Flagstaff, this picturesque setting is along the Agua Fria River, in an elegant Cottonwood Grove in the high desert watching over a shady glen.  Jim painted this on-site, in front of a youth group class of inner-city kids attending a summer camp with art classes sponsored by Chicanos por La Causa.  Tom Chauncey, the owner of Channel 10 in Phoenix, offers his ranch to programs helping and educating our youth.  This natural escape is a perfect shady, cool place and one of Jim's favorites to paint in the open air. Just off the Orme Dugas turnoff on the road to Flagstaff, this picturesque setting is along the Agua Fria River, in an elegant Cottonwood Grove in the high desert watching over a shady glen.  Jim painted this on-site, in front of a youth group class of inner-city kids attending a summer camp with art classes sponsored by Chicanos por La Causa.  Tom Chauncey, the owner of Channel 10 in Phoenix, offers his ranch to programs helping and educating our youth.  This natural escape is a perfect shady, cool place and one of Jim's favorites to paint in the open air.