Image: Dan Miller, Mt. Katahdin, hand-colored woodcut on paper, 12 in x 24 in., Photo courtesy of Rosemary and Garry Levin, Chapter Two, Corea, ME.

Now in his eighties, Pennsylvania Academy professor and printmaker Dan Miller climbed Katahdin in the 1950s and remembered signing the register in a cairn at the summit. Years later, inspired by Marsden Hartley and some magazine photos, the artist drew and cut a woodblock design of the mountain looking northeast from the Kidney Pond area in the Park. Notice the final print is a reverse impression from the original block!

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Artists such as Maurice “Jake” Day traveled throughout the Park to capture scenes and landscapes that embody the very soul of what the Park is to many people. For many who visit the Park, the ever-changing beauty and often haunting grandeur of the northern forest and mountains form an emotional bond that can be both felt and recaptured through various forms of visual art and writing.

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