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John Muir (“mure”) commissioned an artist with this first name to take a trip to Alaska, where he painted Muir Glacier; that artist also depicted an event in Promontory, Utah in The Last Spike. After (10[1])an expedition with Ferdinand Hayden, an artist with this first name helped inspire the creation of a “national playground” with his painting (-5[1])The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Some claim that (10[1])an artist with this first name painted upside-down Hebrew letters (10[1])reading (10[1])“Shaddai” (10[1])on (10[1])a mountain (10[2])in (10[1])the background (10[1])of one work. (-5[1])A (10[1])landscape painter with this first name had the last name Moran. (10[1])Luman Reed, the patron of an artist with this first name, (10[1])encouraged that artist to go to Mount Holyoke and paint a river bend in the aftermath (10[1])of a thunderstorm. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, give this first name of the artist of The Oxbow, (10[2])who also painted The Course of Empire. ■END■ (10[2])

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