Book/Printed Material The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances.
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Image 1 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. E LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DDD1E4DE17A
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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- Date: 1920
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- Date: 1920
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- Date: 1920
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- Date: 1920
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- Date: 1920
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Image 7 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO
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- Date: 1920
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Image 8 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. BOOKS BY PROF. JOHN C. VAN DYKE Art for Art s Sake. University Lectures on the Technical Beauties of Painting. With 24 Illustrations. 12mo. The Meaning of Pictures. University Lectures at the...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 9 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 10 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances.
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- Date: 1920
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Image 11 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO RECURRENT STUDIES IN IMPRESSIONS AND APPEARANCES BY JOHN C. VAN DYKE AUTHOB OP the DESKBT, THE OPAL SEA, the moxjhtaik, etc. WITH ILLTJSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS NEW...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 12 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. r72i .TZf COPTBIQHT, 1920, BT CHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS Published February, 1920 MAS -8 1920 2)C1,A559985 VX I
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 13 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. PREFACE-DEDICATION TO MARIE EDGAR Up from the sea, from the fogs and mists of the Atlantic, the flat basin of the Mississippi, the plains of Kansas, and the low divides of eastern...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 14 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. VI PEEFACE-DEDICATION glowing West Nature speeds her methods with quiet unconcern. She is not shaken by the whirlwind. The sweet influences of her Pleiades are not bound, nor the bands of Orion...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 15 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. PREFACE-DEDICATION Vll ceased to be the Great Gorge has been wrought in form stupendous. A whole mountain range has been, not heaved up from the plateau, but cut out of it cut...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 16 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. VIU PREFACE-DEDICATION world? Though we call in vain, still let us call. If only one should heed and know a new joy in this Canyon splendor, would that not be worth the...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 17 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. CONTENTS Preface-Dedication v CHAFTEB I. The Rim 1 II. Magnitude and Scale 11 ni. Canyon Carving 24 rV. Arena-Making 37 V. The Great Denudation 47 VI. The Canyon Walls 57 VII. Buttes...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 18 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances.
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 19 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Plate 1. The Battleship from El Tovar 6 Plate 2. Bright Angel from El Tovar 8 Plate 3. Buttes from El Tovar 14 Plate 4. Cathedral Stairs, Hermit Trail...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 20 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. xii ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Plate 21. From Cathedral Stairs, Looking Northwest 136 Plate 22. The Lookout 140 Plate 23. Sunset from Hopi Point 148 Plate 24. Pima Point, Looking West 152 Plate...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 21 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 22 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances.
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- Date: 1920
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Image 23 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. THE GRAND CANYON CHAPTER I THE RIM The unexpected happens at the Canyon. Sur- prise, wonder, amazement are looked for, but one hardly counts upon fear. In common with the average visitor,...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 24 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. THE GEAND CANYON the dread temptation that lies within it! The chasm repels and yet draws. What does it me;an? Why before this most prodigious beauty of the world does one feel...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 25 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. THE RIM right, whether travelling along the rocky Rim or along a trail in the forest. If one should take him by the collar and try to drag him or push him...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 26 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. 4 THE GEAND CANYON Emir Musa cast themselves down from the high walls of the City of Brass, crying to the houris be- low By Allah Thou art fair Death does not...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 27 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. THE RIM You cannot bear to see any one standing too close to the edge. You look the other way. And any one doing stunts from a point of overhanging rock makes...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 28 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. 6 THE GRAND CANYON a sunlit lawn, flat water for reflection, distant hills, some bowling white clouds against a blue sky. That is usually considered a livable landscape. And so it is....
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 29 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. From a photograph, copyrighted by Fred Harvey. Plate 1. THE BATTLESHIP FROM EL TOVAR. jSIaricopa Point left, Dana Butte middle shadow, arenas in Red Wall in sunlight. Battleship right foreground.
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 30 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances.
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 31 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. THE RIM The Colorado! Why, yes; this is the valley it has cut, and the River itself is down there, but you cannot see it! Vi^en later, from some projecting point, you...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 32 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. 8 THE GRAND CANYON ever falling and with no arching bow. The scene is sometimes varied still further by clouds that form within the Canyon and slowly rise toward the Rim, breaking...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 33 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. From a photograph, copyrighted by Fred Harvey. Plate 2. BRIGHT ANGEL FROM EL TOVAR. Battleship in shadow, Bright Angel Trail below, Turtlehead right middle distance, North Rim on horizon.
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 34 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances.
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 35 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. THE RIM 9 analysis that repose is, here as elsewhere, her most dominant and impressive quahty. Naturally, after so much that is amazing and some that is harrowing, one at first is...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 36 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. 10 THE GBAND CANYON together quite perfectly. It is a different geologi- cal surface and period from what you have been accustomed to, but it is thoroughly harmonious within itself. Eventually you...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 37 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. CHAPTER II MAGNITUDE AND SCALE At first we cannot see things here at the Canyon for their vastness. The mind keeps groping for a scale of proportion something whereby we can mentally...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 38 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. 12 THE GRAND CANYON solid rock beneath it. The distance in miles means nothing, but the tread upon that bare rock, the feel of the foot, brings home an unforgettable impres- sion...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 39 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. MAGNITUDE AND SCALE 13 across the Inner Gorge; and perhaps a third arrives at a scale of size by throwing Niagara into the Can- yon and then feigning to look for it...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920
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Image 40 of The Grand canyon of the Colorado, recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. 14 THE GEAND CANYON Buddhist temple and the great goddess Nature is put out of countenance by the blinking little divini- ties of India and Egypt. The inadequacy, not to say absurdity,...
- Contributor: Van Dyke, John Charles
- Date: 1920