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Bonnie Peterson - Hetch Hetchy Valley Art Quilt

"Hetch Hetchy Valley " Art Quilt by Bonnie Peterson

© 2004
40"(L) x 48"(W).
Materials: Heat transfers of old maps and photos, paint, satin, silk, drapery sheers, velvet and brocade, hand and machine stitching and embroidery of John Muir's and Robert Price's Hetch Hetchy quotations.

The borders of this quilt are embroidered with the following historical facts and quotations.

Top border: The canyon begins near the lower end of Tuolumne Meadows and extends to the Hetch Hetchy Valley, a distance of about 18 miles, though it will seem much longer to anyone who scrambles through it. John Muir, 1890, Century Magazine

Left border: O'Shaughnessy Dam is a 312 foot high , gravity arch concrete dam... responsible for Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, located on the main stem of the Tuolumne River in Hetch Hetchy Valley. The reservoir, with its capacity of 360,360 acre-feet, is supplied primarily by snow melt from a watershed of 459 square miles located entirely within Yosemite National Park. (Bureau of Rec 1988)

Right border: From Rancheria Mountain, in one morning, we dropped down six thousand feet to Hetch Hetchy Valley, where we spent two days... with its rocks, walls, cascades, and flowers. As we left the valley early in the morning, each breathed a silent prayer that this temple with its stupendous walls and magnificent falls, picturesque oaks, limpid stream, Kolana Rock, should not be transformed into an unsightly storage reservoir. With the Sierra Club in 1911, Robert W Price

Bottom border: In the first week of last November, I set out from here on an excursion of Hetch Hetchy Valley. I set out straight across the mountains leaving Yosemite by Indian Canon. I carried one pair of woolen blankets and three loaves of bread - I reckoned that two loaves would be sufficient for the trip, provided all went sunnily, the third was a big round extra that I called my storm loaf. John Muir, 1872

This artwork is the second of Bonnie Peterson's art quilts about Hetch Hetchy.

See also: "Dam Hetch Hetchy!" Art Quilt by Bonnie Peterson

Other Art Quilts by Bonnie Peterson - (Off-site link)

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