Portraits of the Prairie
Portraits of the Prairie "As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be…
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Portraits of the Prairie
"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."--My ntonia, Willa CatherIt is often called "Catherland"--Webster County, Nebraska, where the quintessential American novelist Willa Cather spent her childhood and found inspiration for her stories of European immigrants on the prairie. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up.
Schilling's images take us to Red Cloud, Cather's childhood home; to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, a botanical jewel of mixed-grass prairie restored to its pre-1900 condition; and Richard Schilling, with his watercolor paintings and ink sketches, conducts us to that land, to scenes that might have influenced Cather, but as they appear today.
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