View from Powell’s Plateau, Grand Canyon, Colorado by Frederic Edwin Church, 1873 jo mara an amazing piece of art

an amazing piece of art

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View from Powell’s Plateau, Grand Canyon, Colorado by Frederic Edwin Church, 1873 jo mara an amazing piece of artFrederic Edwin Churchs View from Powells Plateau, Grand Canyon, Colorado (1873) distills the awe of the American West into a luminous, meticulously observed panorama. A leading figure of the Hudson River School, Church combined field sketches with studio virtuosity to evoke natures vastness at a moment when the nations eyes were turning westward. From this North Rim vantage named for explorer John Wesley Powell, the painting stages tier upon tier of