Category: Sights
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A Scene: Gesyers in the Moonlight — Edwin J. Stanley, 1883
“The eruptions as witnessed by moonlight are truly sublime.”
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— Happy Easter —
“There is no gayer sight than a mass of these yellow lilies, as one comes upon them in the woods under some spreading tree.”
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Moran’s Legacy 3: The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone — Text by F.V. Hayden
Mr. Thomas Moran, a celebrated artist, and noted for his skill as a colorist, exclaimed with a kind of regretful enthusiasm that these beautiful tints were beyond the reach of human art.
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Moran’s Legacy 2: Mammoth Hot Springs — Text by Edwin J. Stanley, 1883
“The first impression on beholding it is that of a snowy mountain beautifully terraced, with projections extending out in various directions, resembling frozen cascades, as though the high, foam-crested waves, in their rapid descent over the steep and rugged declivity, were suddenly arrested and congealed on the spot in all their native beauty. “
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Moran’s Legacy 1: Paintings of the Yellowstone Wonderland
“I did not wish to realize the scene literally, but to preserve and to convey its true impression.”
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Moran’s Legacy 1: Paintings of the Yellowstone Wonderland
“I did not wish to realize the scene literally, but to preserve and to convey its true impression.”
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A Scene: The Great Falls of the Yellowstone — Washburn, 1870
The water, just before it breaks into spray, has a beautiful green tint, as has also the water in the canyon below. …. The mingling of green water and white spray with the rainbow tints is beautiful beyond description.