Glen Canyon on the Colorado
Print page 35, 10. Wall detail, talus and twisted ledges
by
Eliot Porter
Height: 11″
Width: 8.5″
Depth:
Weight (Approx):
Edition Numbers: Print page 35, 10. Wall detail, talus and twisted ledges
Prints:
Medium: Lithograph
Eliot Porter Print page 35, 10. Wall detail, talus and twisted ledges.
Very wonderful at times is a sculpture of these majestic walls. There is an architectural style about it which must be seen to be appreciated. The resemblances to architecture are not fanciful or metaphorical, but are real and vivid; so much so that the unaccustomed tourist often feels a vague skepticism whether these are truly the works of the blind forces of nature or of some intelligence akin to the human, but far mightier; and even the experienced explorer is sometimes brought to a sudden halt and filled with amazement by the apparition of forms as definite and elegant as those of art. Each geological formation exhibits in its cliffs a distinct style of architecture which is not reproduced among the cliffs of other formations, and these several styles differ as much as those which are cultivated by different races of men. -Clarence E. Dutton
