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Name

Winter Spider Rock Canyon de Chelly

Price, USD

865.00

Status

For sale, check

Size, cm

91.4 x 61.0 cm /switch

Artist

Barbara Anne Applegate

Year made

2008-09-29

Style

Impressionism

Theme

Landscape

Winter

Media

Oil on canvas

Collection

Southwestern Landscapes

Description

This rendering is of Spider Rock, which is located in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. I choose to blanket it in the winter a couple of days after a snow storm. Spider Rock stands with awesome dignity and beauty over 800 feet high in Arizona's colorful Canyon de Chelly National Park (pronounced da Shay). Geologists of the National Park Service say that "the formation began 230 million years ago. It stands windblown sand swirled and compressed with time created the spectacular red sandstone monolith. Long ago, the Dine (Navajo) Indian tribe named it Spider Rock. Stratified, multicolored cliff walls surround the canyon. For many, many centuries the Dine (Navajo) built caves and lived in these cliffs. Most of the caves were located high above the canyon floor, protecting them from enemies and flash floods.

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Artist Barbara Anne Applegate

Barbara Anne Applegate, is a self taught artist, starting her painting career in the late 1960's by 1997, I started painting with oils then moved to acrylics and decorative art. An...

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