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Noyes kept an undated journal in which he wrote his thoughts on life, God, religion, children, war, pitfalls of modern life and the spiritual beauty of nature. The writing style addressed the presence of a future reader and makes frequent use of colloquial spellings to make points. Much of his
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of New York city had an exhibition of a number of his paintings and sketches. Although a well-known artist, due to his particular solitary wilderness life, he never pursued art as a livelihood but as a private expression of his spiritual reverence for nature. During his life he worked as a
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style, were masterfully done with confident bold strokes and surprising textural details as captured only by someone who lived close to nature. His creative work expresses his lifelong optimism and belief that nature was the divine expression of God.
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After his death in 1945, his journal and paintings were discovered and remained in a private family collection until 2007 when nearly all of the paintings and much of the manuscript was auctioned off to collectors.
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to pursue his interest in art and talked with some of the many artists who came there every summer. It is not known how many artists he met, but it's on record that George spent the day and night at the home of
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in which he comments on the absurdity of social norms and human folly. The 1,500-page journal was profusely illustrated with some 300 monochrome ink wash landscapes and
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History of Mining in Oxford County, Maine Vol. 2 (2000) by Van King
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Noyes counted among his friends and associates George R. and
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George L. Noyes 1863-1945 Vol. 1 (1989) by Bruce B. Richards
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www.geocities.com/mainemininghistory/index by Van King
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