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Gods in Granite: The Art of the White Mountains of New Hampshire

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Except for about 16 color plates, all the reproductions are in black and white. Would not recommend if you are interested in the color plates. From the front cover, it looks like all the reproductions would be in color, which is not the case.

I have listened to Bob McGrath lecture on this famous school of landscape painting in the White Mountains of NH. I also wrote a paper for MacIntosh College in my Art History course. It is about 20 pages+ long, and reflects my knowledge of the Passaconaway area of the National Forest, where I attended the last UNH Forestry Camp in 1964, and first learned of this legend and lore from Dr. Clark Stevens. Now, there is a resurgence of interest in this old art form of seeing the creator in these works of nature--for which this beautiful area is so famous.

Congrats to Dartmouth's Bob McGrath for producing such a painstaking piece of work on this school. Also look for Catherine Crawford's book on indexing all the available paintings she could note in her book for the Forest Society. John Henderson has a great web page on them, too.

I produced an article for the MountainEar newspaper after this course, in time for the annual sales of these historic paintings by enthusiastic collectors. There will also soon be an exhibition and interpretative display in a newly constructed Intervale Overlook building in North Conway, where this scene attracted many of the old artists in its time.