January 20, 2020

It’s a Beautiful Day
Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
2019

Every time I see this kind of puffy clouds in a blue sky–but especially in this scene because of the rock pinnacle–I think of the cover art on the album It’s a Beautiful Day from 1969. All my photo is missing is a woman on top of the pinnacle.

It’s a Beautiful Day
Album Cover, Columbia Records
1969

I just learned today that the album cover was based on (ripped off from?) the 1912 painting Woman on Top of a Mountain by Charles Courtney Curran.

Woman on Top of a Mountain
Charles Courtney Curran
1912