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Gateway to the West – Daniel Boone Leading the Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap
David Wright’s internationally
recognized works hang in numerous collections, as well as in the Booth Western
Art Museum in Cartersville, GA and the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. David’s commissioned painting for
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, titles Gateway to the West – Daniel
Boone Leading The Settlers Through The Cumberland Gap, 1775 has been made into a
breathtaking wall-size mural that is on display at the Cumberland Gap Visitor’s
Center.
David appeared on
television as an historical consultant in Boone & Crocket: The Hunter-Heroes, which has aired
numerous times since 2001 on the History Channel.
He was recently named as Art Director for Native Sun Productions’ high
definition, award-winning film Daniel Boone and the Westward Movement for
the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park.
More recently, he provided art direction for the Native Sun Productions
History Channel film: First Invasion
– The War of 1812, for which he received a Prime Time Emmy nomination. His portrait of Confederate boy hero,
Sam Davis hangs in the Sam Davis Boyhood Home Museum in Smyrna, TN. He has also completed a signature
paining of Martin’s Station for the Wilderness Road State Park Visitor’s Center
at Ewing, VA.
Daniel Boone and the Westward Movement
By the mid-eighteenth
century, Colonial America wanted to expand beyond the Allegheny mountain range
that hemmed them in to the east. One
of the few possible passages to the west was the Cumberland Gap, a buffalo trace
that led into a dangerous and vast wilderness known as “Kanta-ke” One man would
change all that….his name was Daniel Boone.
This is the story of how that famous frontiersman became the
American Moses and initiated the westward migration into the “Dark and Bloody
Ground” – a movement that would continue for more than another century.
Authentically and
beautifully filmed on remote locations, award-winning Native Sun Productions
recaptures the self-reliant spirit of a desperate frontier people who chose to
risk everything so they could live a free life in the wilderness beyond the
mountains.
Native Sun Productions
is a multiple award-winning, full service
production company specializing in HD, film, video, photography, educational and
cultural programming for television, print media, and museum design. Native Sun Productions is one of
media’s most dynamic and unique storytellers.
Successfully pioneering a new vision of authentic visual concepts that
combines a “cinematic presence” with realistic recreations, they have created an
epic style that is all their own.
Cost $15.00 + postage
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