GEORGE WADE FOOTT: CONTEMPORARY MINING ARTIST

摘要

George Wade Foott was born in Seattle, Washington in 1939. He enrolled at the University of Washington to study Industrial Design and took a number of art classes, receiving his degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1966. Three years later he moved to Colorado where he spent his professional career designing medical equipment, and developed a deep fascination with the mining history of the Rocky Mountains. George's interest in mining and geology became more focused after he purchased a historic business building in Victor, Colorado. He owned the building for nearly 20 years and spent many of those years doing restoration work in anticipation of some day opening an art gallery and studio there. When he was not pounding nails, he was hiking through the hills exploring old mine sites. He also began to collect the old mining artifacts that he later used as props in his paintings. Unfortunately, legalized gambling and large-scale heap leaching operations had a damaging effect on local tourism, and he decided finally to sell the building in 1998. But his love of mining history remained strong and his collection of mining artifacts has continued to grow.