[DOWNLOAD] "Pinacate Painting." by Journal of the Southwest " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Pinacate Painting.
- Author : Journal of the Southwest
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 159 KB
Description
The Pinacate volcanic field is a marvelous locale for an artist in any medium. It has inspired various literary creations from the travelogues of Hornaday to the tall tales of Esquer. It has inspired varied photographic approaches from the tripod-based plates of those early explorers to Adriel Heisey's aerial photos from his modern ultralight airplane. In my own case, the Pinacate craters and mountains have inspired not only writing and photography, but also painting. Many early expeditions to the West included painters along with surveyors, soldiers, and scientists. In fact, one of the painters inspired one of America's greatest innovations. In 1871, Thomas Moran went along on one of the first explorations of Yellowstone. There he made watercolors, and when returned East, he executed mammoth oil paintings so the public could see the wonders of the frontier. As a result, public and congressional interest led President Ulysses Grant to create our first national park, Yellowstone. Moran became known as "Thomas Yellowstone Moran" and signed his paintings with a "TYM" monogram. Some years later, Moran got off a train in Wyoming, hired mules, visited Devil's Tower, and wrote an illustrated article about it in a leading magazine--which eventually led Teddy Roosevelt to designate it as our first national monument.