Trembling earth and were so excited to have her with us today. So before i turn it over to her just a quick note we have sent out an email to everyone this morning that had just a great list of resources like a bibliography that megan had put together so you all should have received that by now. If not that link is posted in the chat. So that please join me in welcoming megan kate nelson. Hi everyone. Thank you so much. Thank you nicole for that lovely introduction and to the Smithsonian Associates for the invitation to be with you tonight. I would also like to thank harmony and ellen and steve and anna and liz for running this show and to helping me get all the the tech straight. I cannot think of a better place for me to talk about saving yellowstone then at the smithsonian as you will learn tonight, the institution played a really Important Role in both the exploration and the preservation of this Iconic National landscape. So, thank you all for being with me tonight as nicole noted
music narrator thomas moran embarked on his first trip to the west in 1871. The United States at the time was still recoveng from the ravages of the civil war. Americans turned with hope to the western frontier. By painting the pristine grandeur of these remote places, moran enabled 19thcentury americans to visualize a magnificent landscape most would never see. His paintings transformed their perceptions of the west. From 1867 to 1879, the United States government sponsored four western expeditions, now known as the great surveys. Of all the ais who accompanied them, ne is more associated with the surveys than thomas moran. The watercolors he brought back from wyoming, the first color images of yellowstone, played a key role in the creation of the National Parks system. Yellowstone had long been familiar to american indians, mountainmen, traders and travelers. Legendary, seemingly unbelievable stories made their way east. The canyon was said to be a fearful chasm, the river a frightfu
music narrator thomas moran embarked on his first trip to the west in 1871. The United States at the time was still recoveng from the ravages of the civil war. Americans turned with hope to the western frontier. By painting the pristine grandeur of these remote places, moran enabled 19thcentury americans to visualize a magnificent landscape mostould never see. His paintings transformed their perceptions of the west. From 1867 to 1879, the United States government sponsored four western expeditions, now known as the great surveys. Of all the ais who accompanied them, none is more associated with the surveys than thomas moran. The watercolors he brought back from wyoming, the first color images of yellowstone, played a key role in the creation of the National Parks system. Yellowstone had long been familiar to american indians, mountainmen, traders and travelers. Legendary,eemingly unbelievable stories made their way east. The canyon was said to be a fearful chasm, the river a frightful
Through the months of april and may, meter by meter the forms of the tapestry gradually begito emerge. Miro has said of his approach to art, things come to me slowly. My vocabulary formsas not been the discovery of a day. It took shape alst in spite of myself. In this way, ty ripen in my spirit. Into the steamy month of august, the spirit of femme grows until the figure is complete. Now, with only a few inches of background remaining, royo welcomes miro to his studio once more to witness the final steps of an eightmonth process. Royo says, working together, we have become solosely attuned that i can almost read his mind. I take direction as much from an expression or gesture as from words or sketches. Working with miro has forced me make a constant effort to do better, an effort from which i have benefited in many respects. For these two catalan artists, it has been a fulfilling experience. What was born in the imagination of one artist has been translated and skillfully brought into b
Provided you could receive these aids before it is too late in life, and before your manner and taste were corrupted or fixed by working in your little way at boston. Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine maroon cloth with gold buttons, this dazzling to my unpracticed eye, but his painting, the first id ever seen deserving