The National Park Service encouraged everyone to “Get up, get out there, and find your park!” The Centennial celebration—which officially took place on August 25, 2016—kicked off the beginning of […]
Old Faithful
Serigraphy and the Artist
Greetings fellow art fans! I wanted to update you on my time spent so far in the Whitney Western Art Museum’s vault. I have come across some magnificent treasures and […]
Treasures from Our West: Photograph of winter in Yellowstone National Park
Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2013 Photograph of winter in Yellowstone National Park Winter in Yellowstone National Park can have a timeless quality, as this photograph from 1971 […]
Wild Wonderland: Yellowstone Arts and Crafts
“A thousand Yellowstone wonders are calling, ‘Look up and down and round about you…whatever your fate, under whatever ignorance or knowledge you may afterward chance to suffer, you will remember […]
Old Faithful
“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 […]
Treasures from Our West: Preussl’s “Old Faithful”
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 […]
