William C. Miesse, art and rare book dealer, art publisher, and lecturer, will present a program about Mount Shasta and its artistic legacy on Sunday, May 18, 2 to 3 p.m. at College of the Siskiyous Weed Campus, Life Science Building, Room 3. The subject of Miesse’s talk is also the subject of his new book, Sudden and Solitary: Mount Shasta and Its Artistic Legacy, 1841-2008, coauthored by Robyn G. Peterson and released this month by Heyday Books. The program is sponsored by the COS Library.
Miesse will show selected slides of paintings and other artwork representing the mountain which was produced over a span of more than 150 years, from the early explorers and artists of California such as Albert Bierstadt and William Keith to the many visionary artists who have been inspired by the mountain.
According to Miesse, “The book is an attempt to characterize what Mount Shasta meant to the nineteenth-century American and Californian, and how those ideas have evolved in the visual arts up to the present. There are many mountains in the West, but few offer the experience that Shasta does of being in a place apart and unique; it is no surprise that it has generated an artistic legacy of such grandeur.” Sudden and Solitary includes contributions by other Northern California writers including William (Bill) Hirt, Neil Schanker, Lee H. Simons, Floyd Buckskin, Frank LaPena, and Caleen Sisk-Franco.
The book will be available for purchase following the presentation and Miesse will sign copies, if desired. The cost of the book is $37.54, including tax. The book is also available for purchase at local bookstores and at the Turtle Bay Museum in Redding.
For more information about the program, contact COS library director Dennis Freeman at the Weed Campus, (530) 938-5331 or by email: freeman@siskiyous.edu
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