CÁRDENAS, EVENING WATCH – SEPTEMBER 1540

30” x 20” | 2022 | Oil on Canvas

Honoring historical facts is very important to me. In reading about the Garcia Lopez de Cárdenas expedition in search of the great river, historians have written that the weather was very cool in September 1540 at Grand Canyon. The conquistadors surely would have made fires to warm themselves on those frigid nights.