{"id":6797,"date":"2018-01-18T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T18:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2023-11-05T07:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T15:35:59","slug":"dismal-nitch-on-the-columbia-river-new-wayside-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/dismal-nitch-on-the-columbia-river-new-wayside-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dismal Nitch on the Columbia River – new wayside paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not exactly nature art, but still meaningful to me. Lewis and Clark National Park is at the mouth of the  Columbia River. Part of the park sticks out into the river and was the location (maybe) where the Corp of Discovery stayed for a week, wet, hungry and in a dangerous situation. My task here is to show the event in six paintings that will be placed along this walkway. Somewhat serendipitously, we were here a year ago goofing around and a couple of weeks later this bid to fill up these empty panels appears. I was the only one involved that had actually been to the site.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The most meaningful thing, at least to me is that for part of the research, I used my mom’s book “George Shannon, Young Explorer with Lewis and Clark”,<\/em> Virginia S. Eifert, Dodd Mead, New York, 1963. What a kick, painting the exact same thing she wrote about 55  years ago, and using her research for my paintings. Keeping it in the family!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel bases are already in and waiting. Below is an amazing bronze, probably worth more than our house, that sits right at the end of the loop trail.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nancy beside the big Corps of Discovery bronze with Dismal Nitch cove in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A section of the bronze, a lost wax casting of the highest quality. I know, I’ve helped do this stuff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

My paintings will be scattered along the shore and tell the story of salmon, Indians, Lewis and Clark and Jefferson’s vision of westward expansion. Of course, I’m sprinkling nature into all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like to compare Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery with the moon landings of the 60’s. It was the same, really, for these guys to head off into nowhere, without maps, and find a way across the continent in a government-sponsored expedition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the blog on the web.<\/a> And here\u2019s my Facebook fan page<\/a>. I post lots of other stuff there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click <\/a>here to go to our main website \u2013 with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy\u2019s web portfolio of stunning photography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\u00a0here to go to Virginia Eifert\u2019s website.<\/a>\u00a0Her books are now becoming available as Amazon Kindle books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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