Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West . to be foundin this enchanting southwestern country; acountry flooded with color and picturesqueness,offering everything to inspire the artist andstimulate him to the production of works oflasting interest and value. **This Grand Canyon of Arizona, and allthe country surrounding it, offers a new andcomparatively untrodden field for pictorial inter-pretation, and
Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West . to be foundin this enchanting southwestern country; acountry flooded with color and picturesqueness,offering everything to inspire the artist andstimulate him to the production of works oflasting interest and value. **This Grand Canyon of Arizona, and allthe country surrounding it, offers a new andcomparatively untrodden field for pictorial inter-pretation, and only awaits the men of originalthoughts and ideas to prove to their countrymenthat we possess a land of beauty and grandeurwith which no other can compare. The pastoralpainter, the painter of picturesque genre, theimaginative and dramatic landscapist are hereoffered all that can delight the eye or stir theimagination and emotions. With truth and perceptions of a poet, has described the Canyon as An infernoswathed in soft celestial fires, unflinchingly real,yet spectral as a dream. It is the soul of MichaelAngelo and of Beethoven.* Its forests of cedar and pine interspersedwith aspens and dwarfish oak are weird in 132. THE GRAND CANYON the extreme; its tremendous architecture fillsone with wonder and admiration, and its color,forms and atmosphere are so ravishingly beau-tiful that, however well traveled one may be, anew world is opened to him when he gazes intothe Grand Canyon of Arizona. It would be strange, indeed, if such astirring appeal should pass unheeded, and as aconsequence the Canyon region is being increas-ingly frequented by painters of note; GeorgeInnes, Jr., Elliott Daingerfield, Edward Pott-hast, DeWitt Parshall, the late G. H. McCord,and other distinguished representatives of Amer-ican art have been among the visitors of lateyears. Perhaps from among these pilgrims ofbrush and palette may come forth a fit successorto the master who first brought to th
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