
Explore the geography and landscape ecology of western North America through the art and history of the American West, from Yellowstone to Yosemite.
Alfred Jacob Miller's paintings depict Stewart and his guide in the old west, using soft clouds, subtle light, and layered landscapes to highlight historical significance.
Explore Maximilian and Bodmer's Missouri River expedition through the American West, capturing Native American life, horses, tepees, and river landscapes from Fort Union to Fort McKenzie.
Explore William Keith's California landscape masterworks, from Yosemite Valley to Mount Shasta, highlighting dramatic dark masses, light accents, and the organization of trees and vegetation as a historical record.
An American photographer and environmentalist captured black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite, using panoramic and detailed views and highlighting conservation.
Explore the course catalog and its alignment with the landscape masters of the American West. Clarify about the topics and express thanks to readers.
The Landscape Masters of the American West is a course on the history, art and culture of the American West through the Eyes of the American Artist. We will travel with the expeditions that opened this land for the rest of the world to see and admire. The impressively beautiful American West interpreted by these very talented artists. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius
This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.
The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.
Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.