A Field Guide to George Wexler's Marvelous Places

A geologist friend once suggested relating my father's landscape artworks to a GPS tour of the mid-Hudson region – the Wallkill and Rondout Valleys, and the mountains bordering to the west and northwest – the Shawangunks and the Catskills. This notion appealed to my sense of outdoor adventure, and so I spent a week on two separate occasions, thirteen years apart, seeking out and photographing painting locales identifiable from the brief notations in his log book as well as visual clues in his paintings. The result is this companion to "George Wexler's Marvelous Places: The Artist and His Landscape," devoted to a series of four photographic tours. Each stop within a tour is tagged with a GPS coordinate, pointing somewhere within the mountains and valleys that Wexler frequented on his many painting journeys. Read more