Looking up the Trail at Bright Angel, Grand Canyon, Arizona by Frederic Edwin Church, 1901 Size:37x50in (94x127cm) creating depth without showiness

creating depth without showiness

Scarce decorative world map based on Garnier's Spheroidal projection

immortalized numerous species in his monumental work

and Los Angeles to Salt Lake City

Historic Plaza de los Lagartos

Looking up the Trail at Bright Angel, Grand Canyon, Arizona by Frederic Edwin Church, 1901 Size:37x50in (94x127cm) creating depth without showinessFrederic Edwin Churchs Looking up the Trail at Bright Angel, Grand Canyon, Arizona (1901) embodies the awe that the American West inspired at the turn of the 20th century. A leading light of the Hudson River School, Church was renowned for his sweeping, closely observed vistas that balanced scientific attention to geology and atmosphere with a deep sense of the sublime. In this work, he guides the eye along the Bright Angel Trail and upward through