[Arts and Culture El Dorado]
Friday, November 12 - Thursday, December 9, 2021
Reno, Nevada 89512
If you enjoyed Arts and Culture El Dorado’s exhibition Marking Their Trail: Basque Arborglyphs in the Sierra Nevada, you won’t want to miss the last opportunity to see these pieces in a public setting before they are donated to the Basque Library at University of Nevada, Reno.
Truckee Meadows Community College is hosting the last public exhibition of the arborglyphs (tree carvings) left behind by Basque sheepherders. Mountain Picassos: Basque Arborglyphs of the Great Basin will present a large series of wax-on-muslin rubbings of images carved onto aspen trees in the high country and meadows of the Great Basin by Basque sheepherders in the early- to mid-20th Century.
The rubbings were created by Jean and Phillip Earl of Reno to preserve aesthetic artifacts of early settlers in the area. Through a process which borrows techniques from brass rubbings and painstaking efforts to obtain a clear image because of natural degradation to the trees by environmental factors, the Earls’ works offer the viewer a glimpse into the imagery of both human and animal life in early Nevada.
For more information on Jean and the rubbings click here to visit our website.
If you enjoyed Arts and Culture El Dorado’s exhibition Marking Their Trail: Basque Arborglyphs in the Sierra Nevada, you won’t want to miss the last opportunity to see these pieces in a public setting before they are donated to the Basque Library at University of Nevada, Reno.
Truckee Meadows Community College is hosting the last public exhibition of the arborglyphs (tree carvings) left behind by Basque sheepherders. Mountain Picassos: Basque Arborglyphs of the Great Basin will present a large series of wax-on-muslin rubbings of images carved onto aspen trees in the high country and meadows of the Great Basin by Basque sheepherders in the early- to mid-20th Century.
The rubbings were created by Jean and Phillip Earl of Reno to preserve aesthetic artifacts of early settlers in the area. Through a process which borrows techniques from brass rubbings and painstaking efforts to obtain a clear image because of natural degradation to the trees by environmental factors, the Earls’ works offer the viewer a glimpse into the imagery of both human and animal life in early Nevada.
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