Edge of the Prairie

16x20", oil on linen | Sold My earliest childhood memories are from growing up in Northeastern, Indiana. It was in the middle of farm country and situated on the furthest eastern edge of the great American tallgrass prairie. Most all of the original prairie, which extended from Colorado to Indiana, vanished several genrations ago. Lost to the plow. What remains are glimpses of the wide open spaces and the wonderful panoramic skies. “Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies… when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.” ~Theodore Roosevelt