When
world-renowned painter H. C. Berann was only 19 he won
first prize in a national competition for his panoramic
map of a mountain-pass highway in the Alps. First and
foremost an artist, he expanded his painting skills
to create a unique style of artistic cartography. Although
painting remained his first love, he has become internationally
celebrated as the father of modern panoramic maps with
such works as a panorama of Mount Everest—done
for the National Geographic Society—and maps of
the world’s ocean floors.
Berann
was commissioned by the National Park Service to create
panoramic maps of Yellowstone, Denali, North Cascades,
and Yosemite National Parks. His large-scale panorama
of Yosemite National Park was done in 1988.
Although Berann died in 1999, at the age of 84, his
art will live on for centuries in the beautiful paintings
and landscape panoramas he so lovingly created. More
information and images of his work can be found on www.berann.com
and www.panorama-map.com/Europeans/Berann/berann.html.
Double
Decker Press (www.DoubleDeckerPress.com) and Sierra
Press have reprinted this version of Berann’s
Yosemite Panorama without identifying print to emphasize
the great artistic quality of his work. Looking into
Yosemite Valley and its surrounding high country from
this western perspective, you are carried aloft on the
clearest day to peer down on the treasures of Yosemite
National Park.
Included
with the poster is a smaller version that identifies
dozens of peaks, waterfalls, and areas of Yosemite.
People who know the Park will be amazed at how many
of their favorite places they can find, and newcomers
to the Park can use it to identify, in bird’s-eye-view,
the places they wish to visit.
Yosemite
Panoramic Poster
Heinrich Caesar Berann (1915-1999)
Size: 18”x24” (Poster comes rolled)
Insert size: 8.5”x11”
$8.95 
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