Leon Rene Pescheret (1892-1971)
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"Camelback Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona"
circa late 1930's, Etching and color aquatint. Edition: Not stated, probably less than 100. Signed in pencil, Leon Rene
Pescheret, lower right; titled, Camelback Mountain, Phoenix,
Arizona,
lower left.
Image: 10 3/8 x 13 5/8 inches (261 x 345 mm). Sheet: 12 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches (318 x 448 mm).
Inventory ID: 1006
Image: 10 3/8 x 13 5/8 inches (261 x 345 mm). Sheet: 12 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches (318 x 448 mm).
Inventory ID: 1006
1 available
Comments:
Very good condition. Good margins. A fine clean impression on heavy wove paper. Prominent in Phoenix is Camelback Mountains which is so obviously named because it looks like a camel lying down. Today the mountain is overseen by the city of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department. A visit to their website disclosed the following:
"During the late 1800s, the federal government reserved Camelback Mountain for an Indian reservation. By the 1940s, however, almost the entire mountain fell into private hands and remained so for most of the next two decades. Efforts on the county, state and federal level to restrict development above the 1,600-feet level largely were unsuccessful, including failed efforts in 1963-64 in the state Legislature to arrange land exchanges.
In 1965, the Preservation of Camelback Mountain Foundation led by Barry Goldwater, spearheaded community efforts to save as much of the summit as possible. This effort ultimately succeeded and was capped of by a ceremony in 1968 marking a land exchange that President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall attended."
Rising to an elevation of 2,704 feet, Camelback Mountain is a prominent landform of relatively untouched desert, surrounded by the ever enlarging metropolitan Phoenix area with a current population of over 5,050,500 persons.
Very good condition. Good margins. A fine clean impression on heavy wove paper. Prominent in Phoenix is Camelback Mountains which is so obviously named because it looks like a camel lying down. Today the mountain is overseen by the city of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department. A visit to their website disclosed the following:
"During the late 1800s, the federal government reserved Camelback Mountain for an Indian reservation. By the 1940s, however, almost the entire mountain fell into private hands and remained so for most of the next two decades. Efforts on the county, state and federal level to restrict development above the 1,600-feet level largely were unsuccessful, including failed efforts in 1963-64 in the state Legislature to arrange land exchanges.
In 1965, the Preservation of Camelback Mountain Foundation led by Barry Goldwater, spearheaded community efforts to save as much of the summit as possible. This effort ultimately succeeded and was capped of by a ceremony in 1968 marking a land exchange that President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall attended."
Rising to an elevation of 2,704 feet, Camelback Mountain is a prominent landform of relatively untouched desert, surrounded by the ever enlarging metropolitan Phoenix area with a current population of over 5,050,500 persons.
