THE GREAT JOHN DEPUY & FRIEND

“In my opinion he is one of the best- perhaps the very best-of the contemporary American landscape painters, a worthy heir to the tradition of Marin, Hartley and Georgia O’Keefe.” — Edward Abbey
To view John’s work:
http://www.galeriedepuy.com/

“I just come out here to get a little scenery.”

The road grid in the Castle Valley subdivision

and a Google View

From the early 1950s…

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We recently made a trip to Denver to visit Tonya’s 95 year old grandmother. This is what the drive looked like as we got to Colorado Springs. I guess just about EVERYBODY would rather be in Colorado…

I guess he’d rather be in Colorado
He’d rather spend his time out where the sky looks like a pearl after a rain…

Once again I see him walkin Once again I hear him talking to the stars he makes
and asking them for bus fare.
I guess he’d rather be in Colorado…

He’d rather play his banjo in the morning when the moon is scarcely gone.
In the dawn the subways comin in the dawn I hear him hummin’
Some old song he wrote of love in Boulder Canyon.
I guess he’d rather be in Colorado…

I guess he’d rather be in Colorado
I guess he’d rather work out where the only thing you earn is what you spend.
In the end up in his office
In the end a quiet cough is all he has to show
He lives in New York City.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPOvcSlnLyg

Click the image below to see more aerial photos of Moab, just as the boom was beginning:

http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2013/04/01/the-view-from-above-moab-in-the-early-90s-by-jim-stiles/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le0PV1I-T9U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDGeFBjynyY