Desert View Watchtower

Acrylic on canvas 2023 by MindSprung, 16 x 20″

I love this tower found on the lip of the Grand Canyon and have wanted to paint it for awhile.

About the tower, from the National Parks Service

Recognized as a National Historic Landmark, the Watchtower was constructed in 1932. Architect Mary Colter’s design takes its influences from the architecture of the Ancestral Puebloan people of the Colorado Plateau. This particular tower was patterned after those found at Hovenweep and the Round Tower of Mesa Verde.