

Path into the Wildness - Art Essay by Fredrick Koeppel
Path into the wildness The opening of the American continent unfolded unprecedented vistas for the migrants and pioneers that braved the arduous journeys required. From the Adirondacks to the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada, from dense, silent forests across the Great Plains to the western desert, geography and geology provided views that testified to the sublime quality of nature and its transcendent hold upon the human imagination. Landscape painters followed where pioneers tr