Big Bend Landscapes

by Dennis Blagg

Book Overview

The rugged land of Texas' Big Bend region is legendary. Towering mountains, austere desert, canyons, and rivers converge in a place of beauty, loneliness, and adventure. Fort Worth artist Dennis Blagg... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158544202X
• ISBN13: 9781585442027
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.8" x 12.4"

Customer Reviews

Realism with feeling

Anyone who enjoys Southwest landscapes or landscape painting will be impressed with this collection of evocative, photo-realistic paintings, many done almost on the scale of murals.

A joy to simply page through at leisure

Big Bend Landscapes by Texas painter Dennis Blagg is a breathtaking, coffee-table artbook of oil on canvas landscapes so captivating, they seize and hold one's attention as surely as the finest of photographs. Mood, mystery, natural serenity in the Big Bend National Park of Texas fill these compiled outdoor paintings austere mountains and dry deserts with a very special dignity and beauty. A joy to simply page through at leisure, each individual painting is enhanced with a brief but informative commentary in this outstanding and memorable collection.

In Love with Landscapes

Unique landscape artist, Dennis Blagg, shares selected paintings and drawings of West Texas. He captures more than the camera can and his style evokes a viseral response. Perhaps you must have "been there, done that" to appreciate that each one is a gift. Blagg also shares brief notes with each entry. That adds a personal touch with a underlying theme of conservation for this special landscape. I must confess I skipped right past the introduction by Ron Tyler and straight to the views of the Chisos that I can't get out of my mind.Big Bend Landscapes is a feast for the heart and soul for all you Big Bend National Park lovers out there and believe me there's a lot of them. Dive into all the moods of the desert and let it carry you away. I just returned from a trip to Big Bend on Feb 25, 2003 and my question is "Was it real or was it Blagg?" Make the book purchase and do the trip and you be the judge.