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Thursday, 30 August 2007

Hetch Hetchy Cañon - Albert Bierstadt


Albert Bierstadt, one of the founders of the Hudson River School of painters, described his painting in a letter of November 3, 1876:

"The scene is laid in the Hetch Hetchy Cañon, California which lies some twenty miles north of the Yosemite and is rarely visited by the tourist because of its inaccessibility. It is smaller than the more famous Valley but it presents many of the same features in its scenery and is quite as beautiful. The season I have chosen is late Autumn when distant objects are mellowed by a golden haze and when the grass is dry and yellow.."
- Albert Bierstadt
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2 comments:

  1. G. E. Light30 Aug 2007, 00:17:00

    Unfortunately now sunk beneath a lake behind a dam to provide drinking water for San Francisco.

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  2. Deadman4 Sept 2007, 06:37:00

    Hetch Hetchy was called "The Other Yosemite" before that sinking.

    Considering that a good amount of our water ends up in Southern California, I'm thinking it was not the best choice to dam up Hetch Hetchy.

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