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New Arrivals in July!
04
Aug
Great River Arts Excited To Show Off Our Newest Arrivals! We’ve added some great new products we thought you’d like to see. SHOP NOW Lopez Island, Salish Sea BUY NOW San Juan Island, Salish Sea BUY NOW Colton’s Oregon and Washington BUY NOW Indian Territories 1844 BUY NOW Dinosaur National Monument BUY NOW
It’s all a work in progress!
31
Jul
Special Note from Lisa For those of you who haven’t noticed my team and I have segwayed into more and more maps of a custom, modern nature! I now work with a few different cartographers from around the country that have a unique knack for creating maps for us that are simple and elegant: All […]
Billy by Special Contributor Jack Nisbet
28
Jul
David Douglas was a Scottish naturalist who worked the Columbia country from the Rocky Mountains to the river’s mouth during three collecting trips between 1825 and 1833. Douglas also happened to be a dog lover and his relationship with various furry friends over those years reveals a lot about both the man himself and the […]
Townsend’s Bat Solution by Special Contributor Jack Nisbet
05
Jul
John Kirk Townsend was a young Philadelphia ornithologist who traveled overland to the Columbia country with an American trading party in 1833.Armed with a sensible Quaker background and a self deprecating sense of humor, Townsend spent the better part of the next three years documenting the fauna of our region. Specializing in bird and […]
Mapping out a living through Color and Repair
05
May
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New Accurate map of the word discovered!
07
Nov
A More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Japanese Design Award To design a map of the world is no easy task. Because maps represent the spherical Earth in 2D form, they cannot help but be distorted, which is why Greenland and Antarctica usually look far more gigantic than they really are, while Africa appears vastly smaller […]
Lisa Middleton: A traveler’s Journey
20
Aug
Growing up on the Upper Mississippi River valley, Lisa Middleton’s bedtime stories were tales of her parents’ adventures in Australia, south Asia, and Europe, where they were backpacking and travelling as teachers in the 1970’s. Family trips in her parents’ RV to places like the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Arizona, and Florida, were the highlight […]
The Art of Sherry Tuss: reflecting wildlife in watercolor
20
Jul
Great River Arts is proud to feature the art of Sherry Tuss in our new Living Legends collection. As Lisa has traveled the country she has met several artists to have been devoted to their trade for many years. This collection serves as additional representation for the artists and to supply affordable prints to the artists […]
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