Native grandeur: Preserving California's vanishing landscapes

by David Wicinas

Fine Hardcover Beautifully illustrated with color paintings, some on double pages. A clean copy in bright, newlooking covers. Crisp jacket is lightly sunned to sipne. Oversize.

136 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[H (trying to keep up with GR friends) Balikov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Writing this review, while fires blaze across California, puts me into a funk. This state, which contains such natural beauty and “native grandeur,” is indeed vanishing.

This book was a production of The Nature Conservancy, a charitable environmental organization, whose mission is to "conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.”

The book looks at various California regions: North Coast, South Coast, Central Valley, Desert, etc. It features works by some of the great (and near great) landscape artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. The abundant text not only comments on what the pictures reveal but gives the reader a sense of what makes each ecosystem unique and important.

Human habitation has changed a great deal of this state over the past 200 years. Yet, having hiked and otherwise traveled through many parts of this state, there still is such natural beauty. Will it be there for the coming generations? With the right management by federal and state officials it can still be viable

[Vincent Sargenti · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love art books and I love anything about the California Impressionists of 1870-1930. What an elevated period for the local art scene in hometown in Southern California.

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chronicles the great landscapes of California and the artists who have painted them.