"Ranches & Rolling Hills" Art of West Marin - A Land in Trust

Marin Agricultural Land Trust is pleased to announce the publication of Ranches & Rolling Hills, Art of West Marin—A Land in Trust. This hard-cover edition contains more than 125 full-color works of art selected from Ranches &Rolling Hills, our annual landscape art show and sale. Six of Christin's past MALT paintings are included. The elegant160-page large format book, published by Windgate Press of Sausalito, contains essays by MALT’s AssociateDirector Elisabeth Ptak, by Jean Stern, Executive Director of the Irvine Museum, and by Michael Whitt, the show’s co-founder and curator.

During the era of America’s westward expansion in the mid-nineteenth century, countless artists were inspired by the luminous beauty of California. Prominent painters who visited the state at that time included Albert Bierstadt, William Keith, and others who illustrated both the native beauty and, later, the agrarian life that became an integral part of the landscape. This book is a collection of contemporary artworks in that tradition, but the images also stand on their own as representative of a new tradition, that of the artist as conservationist.

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