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Lytle Shaw

The African Plains Episode

Typically, the great natural historians have had their classic fieldwork texts illustrated far after the fact by inspired artists who used these texts, I’ll go ahead and say merely, as a launching pad for their own dreaming, their imaginative reconstruction of the flavor, pace and looming presence of those bizarre and often dangerous plains animal encounters.

Fort Chadwijk

As those among you with solid elementary school educations know, the Dutch were a water-oriented culture—inclined to reclaim land from the sea and ship goods by canals.

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The Brooklyn Rail

JUNE 2023

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