Road to Monument Valley
by Steve Henderson
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12.000 x 6.000 inches
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Title
Road to Monument Valley
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Panel
Description
This particular road makes it fairly obvious as to where it is heading.
And while it isn’t necessarily a straight shot – there’s something about roads that insist upon winding and turning – the ribbon of highway in the high Colorado plateau landscape leads inexorably toward the majestic and mighty buttes of Monument Valley.
Located along the Utah-Arizona state lines, Monument Valley lies within the reservation of the Navajo Nation, the people of whom consider the area sacred. Its name in Navajo means “valley of the rocks,” and it is most aptly named.
The highest of the buttes rise, seemingly out of nowhere, to an elevation of 1,000 feet; the plateau itself is 5,000 to 6,000 feet. Blue sky over red rock and sand create a landscape that is other worldly, mystical, and oddly ethereal. Though the buttes are unmoving, substantial, and literally rock solid, they give the impression that they could just as easily disappear into the mist before you get there – and then, when you look about you in perplexed confusion, reappear.
The artwork, Road to Monument Valley, invites you to get in your car (it’s a long walk) and follow that ribbon of highway closer and closer to a landscape of majesty and strength. Though some of the rock formations look like towers in a castle, they are so much more than anything built by human hands. These have been created by time and weather, water and wind, over a period of eons that is beyond the scope of our individual, earthly walk.
They have outlasted, and will continue to outlast, any skyscraper, fortress, shopping center, kingdom, nation, or soap opera. A piece will chip off here, a boulder will tumble down there, but the monuments continue to remain . . . monumental.
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March 11th, 2024
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Gary F Richards 21 Days Ago
Spectacular Road to Monument Valley composition, lighting, shading, brilliant colors and artwork! F/L voted
Lori Pittenger 28 Days Ago
Congratulations, your outstanding artwork has been featured on the leading page of Impressionism group 3/29/2024! Please visit the group to view it in our online gallery and to add it to the features log and catalogs in the group’s discussions. Excellent work!
Jenny Revitz Soper
Great job! Your piece was featured on the homepage of the No Place Like Home group on March 14, 2024. Please share it on the Group's Features discussion and other relevant threads.
Tatiana Travelways
I'm delighted to feature your beautiful artwork on the front page gallery of the "Travel Art" group, at Fine Art America! Feel free and post it to our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/faatravelart
Samuel HUYNH
Exciting news – Your fantastic artwork has been featured in "GREATEST OF ALL TIME" group! 🌈🎨 Feel free to spread the joy by adding it to our "2024 Featured Masterpieces Archive" in the Discussion section.
Nancy Carol Photography
WELL DONE!! Thank you for sharing with us your wonderful work of art that has been proudly presented on the Home Page of the group, 'ART FOR PASSION - PASSION FOR ART'. If you wish, you may archive it permanently or promote it further in the Discussions Tabs titled, "FEBRUARY 2024 Features."
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p Below was posted by accident
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