Van Dyke, John C[harles]

Van Dyke, John C[harles]( 1856–1932),
born in New Jersey, reared in Minnesota, and traveled west into lands of which he wrote in The Desert (1901), popular in many succeeding editions and a major creator of very favorable appreciation of a different landscape form and color. He also traveled elsewhere in the U.S. and abroad, becoming a scholar of fine art which he taught at Rutgers and other major institutions, and wrote books like Rembrandt and His School (1923).