The Path of Totality

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

Solar Eclipse 1851 Brengt Nordenberg

As the day of the total solar eclipse rapidly approaches (2017), we are making preparations to be in a perfect spot to view it—with special glasses, of course. Our painting studios are located just a few miles outside of the Path of Totality—the path that the moon’s shadow will take when blocking the Sun for the total solar eclipse next week. The path is narrow, and people are traveling from all over the country to see it. Hotels nearby have been booked for months. As it happens, one of our out-of-town students will be here taking a watercolor workshop, so she will also be able to enjoy the brief, but amazing rare celestial event.

The last total solar eclipse viewed from the United States was on February 26th, 1979, visible only in a small area in the Northwest, and the next will be on October 14th, 2023, visible in the U.S. from northern California to Florida.

Before people understood the true cause of an eclipse…