For our final visit to Tahoe: A Visual History at Nevada Museum of Art, we were joined by Margaret and Lee.

From August 22, 2015 until this Sunday, the Nevada Museum of Art has allowed us to view our own Lake Tahoe, one of America’s most beloved landscapes, like we had never seen it before– through the eyes of 175 painters, photographers, architects, basket weavers, and sculptors.
Before exploring, we joined printmaker Tom Killion for a discussion and presentation about his art and the history of the prints and printmakers who have created works about Lake Tahoe.
Curator of Education Colin Robertson began the lecture with some exciting statistics. As of this date, there are more museums in America than McDonald's and KFCs combined. And excitedly, this special Tahoe exhibit has been visited by more that 60,000 museum goers, with 1,739 people coming in yesterday alone.
This last of the lectures was a perfect one to attend. I'm a fan of block prints and I enjoyed Mr. Killion's explanation of his passion about art by quoting Edmund Burke's (1729–1797) On the Sublime and Beautiful. He then spoke about the history of this art form in America. In the late 1870s when trade with Japan opened up, Western artists were introduced to the works of Hokusai and Hiroshige, who composed color block prints of scenes of everyday life against backgrounds of famous Japanese landscapes.  One of the printmakers in the exhibit was Frances Gearhart (Old Pine above) who was greatly influenced by this style.
After an hour of an entertaining and informative lecture/slide show, Mr. Killion shared his wood blocks and sketches while answering questions from his many admirers. We were appreciative of this art form after he explained its complexities.
And on a super fun note, the museum was full of people from Tahoe. I counted at least a dozen people we knew. It was the perfect day to drive over the hill to Reno and learn something new.