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Las Vegas in the Pleistocene Epoch:
Bradley Giles Paintings on Exhibit at the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas
Ten thousand years ago, the Las Vegas valley was lush, cool, and watered with deep creeks and artesian springs. Columbian mammoths wandered the meadows and marshlands, while herds of Pacific horses and giant sloths grazed the countryside. Renowned artist Bradley W. Giles, imagining what southern Nevada might have looked like during the last Ice Age, has produced five paintings of the Las Vegas valley during the Pleistocene Epoch, which are on exhibit in the Las Vegas museum's Geology Gallery through February 2010.
Each painting has been placed near its respective subject in the gallery. The largest painting, a seven-foot-wide canvas titled "Las Vegas Marshland," hanging near the museum's recreated mammoth skeleton, depicts a herd of mammoths gathered around a pond, while a lightning storm brews over the distant Spring Mountains. The Pacific horses shown in "Corn Creek Flood Plain" are unaware that an American lion has taken a covert interest in them. "The Visitor" is a Native American, carrying a spear tipped with a Clovis point, sitting vigil on a petroglyph-marked boulder.
Former Las Vegas resident Brad Giles is well-known for his private portrait commissions as well as for his historical paintings, and murals for state and local government projects. Hotel-casinos in Las Vegas have sought his work, including Mandalay Bay, New York New York, Luxor, Caesars Palace, Treasure Island, and the Las Vegas Hilton. Giles' work is currently on exhibit in Las Vegas, Palm Springs, San Francisco, and at the U. S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
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