A painting of the Grand Canyon with a blue sky and different rock outcroppings. The foreground is darker in color and shade, while the background is lighter as if the sun was shining in the canyon.
"Grand Canyon" by Lucien Powell. Powell was a Virginia-born landscape painter who visited the Grand Canyon in 1901, accompanying a group that was doing a geological survey of the canyon. Theodore Roosevelt who had visited the Grand Canyon in 1903, preserved the canyon as a national monument in 1908. This painting hangs in the North Room at the Theodore Roosevelt Home.
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