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Artist Point offers a view of Lower Falls plunging 308 feet in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, framed by canyon walls, forest, and sky. The scene has been photographed countless times for more than a century and is thought to have been named by park photographer F.J. Haynes, possibly as early as 1883. Haynes and his son, Jack Ellis Haynes, photographed and hand-tinted Yellowstone images for eight decades, including numerous works from Artist Point. A persistent myth holds that Thomas Moran's famous 1872 painting “The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” originated at Artist Point, but historians are nearly certain that Moran made sketches for the painting from the opposite side of the canyon.
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