Tahoe: A Visual History

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The definitive survey of art about this national treasure, from Albert Bierstadt to Ansel Adams. Positioned between California and Nevada, the vast body of water referred to as Lake Tahoe has lured artists to its shores for hundreds of years. This lavishly illustrated, large-scale book celebrates Lake Tahoe, in addition to Pyramid Lake, Donner Lake, and the encompassing Sierra Nevada region’s magnificent scenic attractiveness, through more than 350 paintings, photographs, buildings, and objects. This deluxe volume features lush landscape paintings by Albert Bierstadt, Marianne North, and Thomas Moran; photographs by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston; Native American Washoe baskets; historical maps and sketches by the region’s early explorers; ephemera associated with Tahoe tourism of the 1940s–60s; and architectural drawings, such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s proposed cabin community in Emerald Bay and the historic Glen Alpine Springs Lodge design by Bernard Maybeck. Lake Tahoe continues to draw artists, writers, designers, scientists, and other visitors who recognize the original qualities that the destination has to provide.

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