Signed Ed Mell,lower right

This painting has the original wood Collier Frame with Ed Mell engraved on the frame. This painting is very indicative of the way clouds quickly move across the Arizona sky before a monsoon storm fills the sky with sheets of rain quickly absorbed by the dry landscape.  Mell’s clouds are very distinctive and this painting illustrates his use of the geometric shapes to capture a scene. Ed Mell has won numerous awards and honors. His art has been exhibited in nine museum shows,including the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art,Scottsdale Center for the Arts,Mesa Southwest Museum,and the Rockwell-Corning Museum of Modern Art. More than 40 corporate and private collections have acquired his paintings and sculptures,and his life as an artist has been chronicled in major art publications. His biography,"Beyond the Visible Terrain: The Art of Ed Mell%2C"" was published in l996. His art also has been featured prominently in ""Leading the West: 100 Contemporary Painters & Sculptors"" and ""Place of Spirit: Canyon de Chelly,100 Years of Painting and Photography."""