“Old faithful in every kind of weather…” —from “Ole Faithful” by Gene Autry [1] As I mentioned in my previous post, Hey Boo-Boo, Let’s Go Get Ourselves a Pic-a-nic Basket, when I think of Yellowstone, the first thing that comes to mind is Yogi Bear and grizzly bears. The second is Old Faithful. Old Faithful is […]
Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2008 Carl Preussl’s Old Faithful At home in Chicago, German-born painter Carl Conrad Preussl (1894 – 1951) filled canvases with the smoke of factories, the steel gray of train tracks, and upward stretches of window-studded skyscrapers. When he painted Old Faithful in 1929, fourteen years after automobiles were […]