Cypress Grove - Monterey

 

Ralph Mosher Pearson

  1883 - 1958 (biography)

1922  

etching 

5 1/2 x 9 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

#29 from an unstated edition size 

inscribed in pencil beneath image: #29 - Cypress Grove - Monterey / Seventh State. Artist's name and the year incised in the plate in the lower right 

 

cream wove 

seventh state 

artist 

20786 

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A stylized landscape of the cypresses in Monterey, California. The Cypress Grove is found on the peninsula of Monterey. The Point Lobos Foundation states: "The Cypress Grove Trail winds through one of the two naturally growing stands of Monterey cypress trees remaining on Earth. (The other grove is across Carmel Bay at Cypress Point.)

These cypresses, which formerly extended over a much wider range, withdrew to these fog-shrouded headlands as the climate changed with the close of the Pleistocene epoch 15,000 years ago. The outermost trees surviving in the teeth of salt spray and wind, their roots seeking nourishment in cracks and crevices, mirror the forces of nature and time."