The Valley of the Savery, Wyoming

Arms’ The Valley of the Savery, Wyoming is a shock of vast and unfamiliar forms when compared with his more recognizable urban subjects. He represented this landscape as a pattern of long, curving lines across expanses of white that are cut into canyons vertically striped with alternating grays and blacks. The rolling waves of open land and the contrasting canyons do not seem a part of the natural world. Instead, they appear as if made of folded cloth and cut crystal.

This is the only image of the American West that Arms, renowned for his precise architectural etchings, ever created.