In the early 1900s and for the next four decades, New York–based artist Albert Lorey Groll made numerous trips to the Southwest and produced paintings, etchings, and works on paper that introduced East Coast audiences to novel (for them) landscapes. Some of the places he pictured, though famous now, were only just gaining national recognition at the time of his travels. For example, the Grand Canyon, which Groll repeatedly visited and sketched, was made a National Park in 1919. Likewise, El Morro National Monument, the subject of Inscription Rock—N. Mexico, was designated in 1909.
