"Song of Hiawatha", Sioux Falls, SD

Date of Sketch: July 28, 2017

Dvorák's introduction to the New World through Longfellow's 1855 epic poem formed the inspiration for his 9th Symphony years before he arrived in America.  Legends form in one's imagination quite apart from their realities as this sketch for an apartment building shows.  Sioux Falls has a poetic beauty imprinted on its history and seen in bits and pieces of its urban setting. There is something in the sketch as familiar as Dvorák's music, which nevertheless strives to bring something more to the New World's (Sioux Falls') landscape through its legends.