Foreword by Ted KooserPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe LandCountry RoadsWaters of the PrairieSeasons of the PrairieTreesArt in Unexpected PlacesHomes and Prairie TownsChurches and CemeteriesBibliography
A collection of original watercolor paintings and sketches of the Plains inspired by the works of Willa Cather.
Richard Schilling, who traveled the world as a missionary dentist and part-time officer aboard cruise ships, chronicled his adventures in his book, Watercolor Journeys. He has been an artist-in-residence in Isle Royale and Mesa Verde national parks. Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate (2004–6) and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, is University of Nebraska Presidential Professor.
"Even as a devoted Midwesterner, I never thought of the American prairie as a 'romantic' part of the earth - until now! This book, beautiful both in literary conception and in Richard Schilling's exquisitely evocative paintings, makes the prairie as mysterious as Paris, Istanbul, and Shanghai. It will stand, not only as the greatest memorial to the irreplaceable Willa Cather, but to the until-now unknown and unseen parts of our own beloved world." - Georgie Anne Geyer, syndicated columnist, Universal Press Syndicate "Richard Schilling's watercolors, like Cather's prose, have most eloquently told the story of our piece of the country, the prairie, Nebraska." - George Lundeen, bronze sculptor "Richard Schilling's traditional approach to watercolor is the perfect complement to Willa Cather and her love of the prairie. I imagine that if Cather could paint, she would select the palette and visual vocabulary chosen by Schilling." - Jamie Markle,publisher of fine art books and magazines at F+W Media, Inc. "'Photography' is Greek and means 'to draw with light.' Richard Schilling's watercolors of the American prairie would delight those early Greeks... It appears that his art is best made with a marriage between land and sky, where sky manifests ephemeral weather and clouds unique above prairie places." - John Fielder, nature photographer
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