205 Canyon Exodus

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Category Western Americana
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Canyon Exodus
Artist: Delano, Gerard CurtisDate of Birth: 1890-1972
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 32 x 48 inches
Signed: Signed lower right

The deserts of the American West, as Gerard Curtis Delano painted them, resonate with biblical imagery. To extend the comparison, DelanoÕs Navajo often seem like first people, or last people, or chosen people. In DelanoÕs mind, the Navajo are close to Nature, close to God in their simplicity and in their aversion to the modern. Their canyons are otherworldly, detached Edens, beautiful even in their austerityÑor, perhaps, because of it. As opposed to the expulsion from Eden or the wanderings of the people of Moses in the desert, the Navajo in Canyon Exodus, dwarfed by the divinity of the red rocks and blessed by the shaft of sun that points the way, seem simply to be moving from one camp to another. A rider leads, a wagon follows, a shepherdess and flock trail behind. This is a leisurely migration, born out of abundance rather than want, sorrow, or sin.