THE MATILIJA POPPY

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS MERIAM LIBRARY CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO

This limited edition is published in honor of CSU Founder's Week, April 24-30, 2000.

WILDFLOWERS IN WATERCOLOR BY EDWARD STUHL 1887-1984

Stuhl climbed his first California mountain in 1912. He went on in the next seventy years to climb every mountain peak in California, Oregon and Washington, and kept a precise journal of every climb. Stuhl had a strong attachment to Mount Shasta. He climbed it successfully twenty-two times. Upon first seeing the mountain Stuhl journal revels, "I had not seen a real mountain for years, and such a mountain ? awed and spellbound, I settled on a rock ? and let the knapsack slip from my shoulder to the ground. I rested and looked and wondered ? old dreams and new longings arose, the love for the mountains of a stray mountaineer, the restless impulse for adventure and conquest - and conquer I will this mountain"

THE MATILIJA POPPY

"The Matilija Poppy must be conceded the queen of all flowers." This species painted by Stuhl is found only along the Venture Coast of California and the surrounding canyons, including the aptly named Matalija Canyon of the Ventura River.

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