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Embracing Scenes
About Lakes Tahoe &
Donner
Painters, Illustrators, and Sketch Artists, 1855–1915
by Barbara Lekisch
“We cannot describe Lake Tahoe, because this paper is not canvas; and if it were, there are no colors rich and pure enough to portray that marvelous sheet of liquid sapphire.” (Sacramento Daily Union, July 27, 1863.)
Embracing Scenes About Lakes Tahoe & Donner is a compilation of biographical material about 150 artists. Included are lists of each artist's paintings, illustrations, and sketches of Lakes Tahoe, Donner, and the vicinity.
Also included are:
- Diary of James Lamson: a trip to Lake Tahoe and circumnavigation of the lake in 1861.
- “Art Beginnings on the Pacific,” 1869, by Benjamin Parke Avery. “Art is the very germ of civilization . . . its crowning flower.”
- “Charles Warren Stoddard and the Artist Colony.” Oscar Wilde's visit to San Francisco in 1882, by Nellie van de Grift Sanchez, sister-in-law of Robert Louis Stevenson.
248 large-format pages, 3 color and 5 b/w illustrations, bibliography, register, and index.
Embracing Scenes about Lakes Tahoe and Donner. ISBN: 0-944220-14-2. #GRWE7472 paper$35.00
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