[Pastel Painting,
Landscape], Lat/Lon (34.8567, -111.7953), 9 by 12 in,
(23 by 30 cm),
I.V. Passmoore,
2002
The Last of the Plainsmen, by Zane Grey has a chapter about the Arizona desert--
"Imagination had pictured the desert for me as a vast, sandy plain, flat and monotonous. Reality showed me desolate mountains gleaming bare in the sun, long lines of red bluffs, white sand dunes, and hills of blue clay, areas of level ground--in all, a many-hued, boundless world in itself, wonderful and beautiful, fading all around into the purple haze of deceiving distance.
Thin, clear, sweet, dry, the desert air carried a languor, a dreaminess, tidings of far-off things, and an enthralling promise. The fragrance of flowers, the beauty and grace of women, the sweetness of music, the mystery of life--all seemed to float on that promise. It was the air breathed by the lotus-eaters, when they dreamed, and wandered no more....
Far to the front the pink cliffs, the ragged mesas, the dark, volcanic spurs of the Big Colorado stood up and beckoned us onward. But they were a far hundred miles across the shifting sands, and baked day, and ragged rocks. Always in the rear rose the San Francisco peaks, cold and pure, startlingly clear and close in the rare atmosphere."
Cliff, Precipice, Pinnacle, Mount, Mountain, Sandstone, Strata, orange, blue and magenta hues
Series Description: Starling introduced me to this place. Later, train travels took me there. The town has few equals in the desert Southwest. -One of western art's focal points.
A selection of 10 more titles in this series --
Desert Cloud Growing with Dispatch |
Red Rock Amphitheater, from Highway 89A |
Evening brings out the best in desert architecture |
Ghostly Blue Mountains fringed by Pink Sandstone |
Green Toads Averse to Amphibian Athletics |
Moon, Cloud & Red Cliff -- the Big Picture |
You Get So Lonely in the Moonlit Desert |
Imposing Full Moon Graphic |
Arizona, Sedona cliffs |
At the lecture in Sedona AZ |
Summary of titles in the "Sedona Arizona" series --
23 Pastel Paintings | 4 Pen & Ink Sketch/Drawings | 1 Watercolor Paintings | 1 Oil Paintings |