“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”


John Muir

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Thomas Hart Benton - FIsherman at Sunset


Fisherman at Sunset


Thomas Hart Benton loved the Ozarks and particularly floating the Buffalo river. See the attached article form Sports Illustrated in 1970


The Old Man And The River

At 81, Artist Thomas Hart Benton, one of the founders of the Midwest Regionalist School of painting, still carries on his long love affair with the roily Buffalo River in the Ozarks


Read more:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1083914/1/index.htm#ixzz1AUUv0kCE

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