Grand Staircase-Escalante
BERNARD MARKS WROTE ABOUT HIS STRONGLY VERTICAL WATERCOLOR FROM GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT:
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah offers an amazing variety of formations, features, and world-class paleontological sites. Into this staircase of cliffs and terraces, the Paria River and its tributaries have carved a landscape of isolated mesas, valleys, buttes, and narrow canyons. I made this plein air watercolor right on the rim. It merely suggests the magnitude of this unique national treasure.
A buyer in St. George, Utah took this unusual watercolor off my hands very soon after it landed in my gallery there. I always appreciate it when “the locals” appreciate the paintings I make in their areas.
MARTHA MARKS COMMENTS:
When we first visited the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 2007, we truly were blown away by what Bernie described above as the “magnitude of this unique national treasure.”
Unfortunately, a decade later, a president who cared nothing for nature, natural beauty, and ecology chopped over half of the land out of that national treasure. That was a tragedy in our minds. We were grateful to have experienced it a decade earlier and were hoping to go back.
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