IN the Columbia River Gorge, whose vistas are protected by the 85-mile-long Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, water is the main attraction.
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His creation will relate not only to some of his earlier work, but also to the nature he has discovered in Central Park, whose vistas are an integral part of the setting.
Nearby Letchworth State Park, whose vistas have given it the nickname "the Grand Canyon of the East," is a potent local draw: it attracts almost three-quarters of a million visitors each year.
Luo and the nameless narrator are packed off to the damp, remote mountain known as the Phoenix of the Sky, whose vistas will be recognizable to anyone familiar with the stylized landscape painting of pre-Revolutionary China.
In reality it's a dingy, dog-eared auditorium whose great vista is actually just a canny assembly of plywood and fairy lights.
And encompassing all of them was the beauty of France, but mainly Italy, whose light, vistas and ruined monuments might have almost painted themselves.
This raised a rare preservationist outcry in a heavily industrialized nation whose coastal vistas tend toward concrete sea walls and oil refineries.
Coward died in Jamaica in 1973, perched in a vacation home (he owned another in the Swiss Alps) whose rolling vistas were a glittering reflection of his robust commercial triumphs.
It is hard to consider that idea without the 19th-century painters of the American sublime, such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, whose great vistas of the Yosemite valley, the Grand Canyon and the Colorado river disseminated both the beauty and the promise of the west.
