Don Quijote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. Here in this Volborth photo, Don Quixote rides his trusty steed Rocinante on a starry night. The inspiration for this work by Honore' Daumier can be seen at :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote

"Art of Darkness" Homage to Africa and Joseph Conrad. Red
Sandstone. North of Lake Mead, Nevada. 3/11/2005.
Read more about Conrad at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness

"First Sign of Spring" Dayton, Montana, from my window.
Flathead Lake, 2/17/2007.

"Mark Rothko's Treasure Chamber" Red Sandstone. North of Lake Mead, Nevada.
> See: Mark Rothko, No.2, 1962. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art. The
> University of Chicago.
See http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/V9yOPLQZW75F9lufvyVYug?select=qb8HBXSQYQjnV466M-fC9w

"Dreaming of Her Dance" Homage to Victor Brauner (Romanian, 1903-1966)
'L'Objet qui rêve II' (The Object that Dreams II) Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago)

"Homage to Kasimir Malevich II" (Black Square, 1915;
"Suprematist Composition: Plane," at MOMA; and "Suprematist Composition"
sold for 60,002,500.00 $ at Sotheby's; see Financial Times January 2009,p.
12, Life/Arts. Red Sandstone with iron/manganese/titanium black crust. North
of Lake Mead, Nevada, 2004.
See http://www.russianpaintings.net/doc.vphp?id=126

Gateway to Malevich. Entrance into a dark Cave. "Homage to Kasimir
> Malevich I." Pink sandstone. North of Lake Mead. Nevada. 2004.

"Homage to Dali" Rocks on the beach at Cape Creus: The
'Sleeping Rock' and the 'Cullero Rock' recalling Don Quixote on his horse,
gave Dali ideas for many of his paintings. I searched and found a rock
resembling both in a mystical way. I called it "Dali's Rock" (at sunset with
Creosote bush in front; 12/17/2004) Red sandstone. Mojave Desert, North of
Lake Mead, Nevada.

"Homage to Salvador Dali" See "Shades of Night Descending" 1931.
(Ombres de la nuit descendante). The Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg,
Florida. My: "Nevada Sunset." 11/19/2004.
See the original at: http://www.virtualdali.com/31ShadesOfNight.html

Geological Joke: Darwin's Footprint on Cretaceous/Jurassic border
> Red Sandstone. Taken 10/28/2005, 1.11.46 PM! An accidental product of
weathering! Probably of a few softer inclusions. Calcite? Gypsum? Phosphate? or
clay? Accidentally grouped! Homage to DALI!
Thus, being a Geologist, I suggest we publish this unique 'creation' also
in honor of Salvador Dali - The Great Magician Artist. Note: There are
similar footprint frescoes painted on the ceiling of the Teatro Museo Dali
in Figueras.

"Homage to Dali's Skulls" See "The Face of War," 1940-41 (the brown one) Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; and "Untitled" (Campaign against venereal diseases; the green one; private coll.). My "Dali's Skull"
10/25/2005. Green lichen over Red Sandstone. Mojave Desert, North of Lake Mead. Nevada. See the original a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Face_of_War

"Homage to Dali" See "The Persistence of Memory (Soft Watches)"1931. My "Time Passes" or "Dissolution of Capitals." Red sandstone in a cave, North of Lake Mead, Nevada.

"Homage to Salvador Dali" See his: "La Solitude, 1931" Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (P. 77. Eric Zafran, Surrealism and Modernism). "SOLITUDE" A red sandstone boulder found in this position at sunset. 10/24/2007. North of Lake Mead. Mohave desert. Nevada.

"Homage to de Chirico, Giorgio). I will call this:
The Poet's Autumn Dream" Reminds me of de Chirico's 'moods' in general. See his "The delights of the Poet, 1912; and The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon,
1909.Red Sandstone slab with two broken profiles facing each other! North of
Lake Mead, Mojave Desert, Nevada. OCTOBER 24, 2007. All as I found it;
nothing disturbed!

"Homage to Willem de Kooning I" See "Woman V, 1952-53,
Canberra, National Gallery of Australia. Red Sandstone with Green and Grey lichen and oxide crusts. (Note the teeth!)
See the original at Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning

"Homage to Willem de Kooning," my "Attractive Buxom Woman's Torso" See: "Untitled (Woman), 1971; and "Woman V." Red Sandstone butte wall surface. North of Lake Mead, Nevada, 2005. Canberra, National Gallery of Australia.

"Homage to Yves Tanguy" See his "Annihilation of Species II,
1938" I name this 'Accidental Masterpiece' "The Permian and Cretaceous
Extinction," also in honor of Richard Dawkins of Oxford! (read his "The God Delusion"). Dunes over Jurassic Red Sandstone and wind blown Burro droppings in front. See the 'meteorite falling' in the upper right corner. I threw a
rock! North of Lake Mead, Nevada.

"Homage to Duchamp II" See: 'Etant donées:1 La Chute d'eau,
Le Gaz d'eclairage (Given: 1 The Waterfall, 2 The Illuminating Gas),
1946-66. Philadelphia Museum of Art. My "Spirit Mountain Peaks seen from a granite Cave" Spirit Mts, Claek Co. Nevada. 11/17/2004.

To honor Alexander the Great's horse Bucephalus at the Battle
of Issus. See: Mosaic from Pompeii, Naples, Archaeological Museum. ~300 B.C.
Red Sandstone boulder with green lichen and oxide crusts. North of Lake
Mead, Nevada.10/26/2005.
See the original mosaic here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Battle_of_Issus.jpg

4170124 "Homage to Francis Picabia" 1879-1953. See his: Painting of a Better Future, 1949. Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France.
A shred of a red shaggy carpet partially buried after a rain shower under gravel and broken branches on the desert floor. South of Challis, Idaho. 4/17/2006.
See the inspiration here: http://www.toutfait.com/issues/volume2/issue_4/articles/rothman/rothman2.html

"Homage to Barnett Newman." Or my "The Fallen Obelisk." See his "Broken Obelisk" at MOMA!? Red Sandstone boulders fallen on the desert floor. 12/17/2004.
See it here http://www.nassaumuseum.com/outdoor/outdoorsculpture_abstract_newman.htm

My Cherry Tree. "Homage to Piet Mondrian" (See: Sandro Bocola's:
The Art of Modernism, Prestel, 2000, pp. 195-200, especially pp. 194-196).
The Old Cherry Tree behind my home in Dayton, Montana. 1/15/2006. Compare:
Piet Mondrian: Evolution, 1910-1911, triptych; Tree II (or Study for the
Gray Tree); The Gray Tree, 1911; Flowering Appletree, 1911. All in Haags
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag

"Homage to Rothko" Desert sands, Red sandstone. Dunes, and wind-
scattered Burro Droppings in front. North of Lake Mead, Nevada. 2005. From
my collection "Coprolites." Reminds me of his "Brown and Black on Reds, 1957.
Private collection." See: Roy Bolton: A Brief History of Painting. Carroll &
Graf Publishers, NY, 2004.

"Homage to Greece" See: Underground Shrine, 'cenotaph,' empty
toomb. Paestum, Italy. Nature 'sculpted' red sandstone, North of Lake Mead,
Clark County. 4/9/2004.

"Homage to Robert Mapplethorpe II" (see: "Cock and Knee" c. 1978.
Alison Jacques Gallery, NY) Red Sandstone. North of Lake Mead. Clark County,
Nevada, 2004.
Original photograph by Mapplethorpe here: (EXPLICIT)
http://www.designboom.com/history/mapplethorpe.html

"Homage to Robert Mapplethorpe I" Red Sandstone with Ripplemarks.
Green Lichen and black oxide crusts. North of Lake Mead. Clark County,
Nevada, 2004.

"Homage to Robert Mapplethorpe III" or "The Devil is Looking" (see:
Cock and Devil, Alison Jacques Gallery, NY) Red Sandstone Cave. North of
Lake Mead. Clark County, Nevada 2005.

"Secrets of a Woman" Red Sandstone Caves with yellow, green, and blue lichen and oxide crusts, after rain! Mojave Desert, North of Lake Mead, Nevada.
2004

"Geology in Action!" Ripple marks. In front lower left, cross-bedded
Jurassic Red Sandstone, over 135.000000 years old, petrified dunes with
wind-blown ripple marks still detectable. Behind, ripple-marks-covered
delta-like surface formed a few days ago after strong rains! Still loose
soft, moist sand! Desert north of the Valley of Fire, near Overton, Nevada.
12/30/2003

"Homage to Monet-Haystacks No.2" Porphyritic Rapakivi Granite. Spirit
Mountain, Clark County, Nevada. 2004

Homage to Jackson Pollock,
and " Untitled (Scent), 1953-1955. Los Angeles, California. Collection David Geffen. (That painting is even more similar color combination and pattern to my photograph of a desert flower near Nelson, Nevada.

"Homage to Brancusi - Torso of a Young Girl II, 1922" Philadelphia Museum and Sculpture. Porphyritic Granite, Spirit Mountain, Clark County, Nevada.
2004 See the original work by Brancusi here: http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/tuchman/tuchman9-10-8.asp

P1010005 2003 "The Snake" Dry root embedded in volcanic scoria. Craters
of the Moon. Idaho. Pointed out by Nadia Volborth. 2003.

PC290022 Indian Petroglyphs partially destroyed by Tourist Vandals by
scratching. Mohave Desert, North of Lake Mead. 2003

“Homage to Greece, Fertility and the Artemis of Ephesus” ~200 BC, who has over a dozen breasts (Thus, I could not resist to add the two little rocks in front. Pink sandstone with some green, grey, and dark-blue lichen growths).
Learn more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis

"The Mystical Letter" Spiritus meus attenuabitur, dies mei breuiabuntur, solum mihi superest sepulchrum. Iob XVII.
Greenish diabase rocks glued into the sand forming number 7; at sunset,
4.58 PM. 12/13/2007. Mohave Desert. North of Lake Mead, Nevada.

"Homage to Holbein" Dance of Death 2. Ballerina Standing. Images of Death 1524-1525. "Der alt man," Art Museum Basel.

"Dance of Death" 3. Homage to Holbein. Ballerina Exiting. Images of Death 1524-1525. Art Museum Basel. (esp. "Der Alt man" sic)

HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL. DESERT FLOOR NEAR NELSON. NEVADA

Stone Butterfly with Small Flowers. Gold-bearing breccia near Nelson,
Nevada. 2005.

NEFERTITI. HOMAGE TO EGYPT. Red Sandstone Cave. Mohave Desert. Nevada. 2005

"Memorial to a Horse" Gold-bearing Breccia. Nelson, Nevada.

"THE DANCE" Homage to a Ballerina. Sandstone wall in full sun light. 2005

The Stone Butterfly" 2002. Sandstone covered with fine multicolored lichen and dark spots of iron/manganese oxides. Mojave Desert, Nevada

Homage to Andy Warhol. Desert floor near Nelson. Nevada. 2004

HOMAGE TO ANDREW WYETH:"CHRISTINA"S WORLD" Exhibited at Gallery P in Las Vegas 11/23/2004.
SEE THE INSPIRATION AT http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/wyeth/christinas_world.jpg.html

"On the Beach" Red Sandstone. Notice the Roman Legionnaire's head and helmet in the upper left corner! Homage to Dali.

"The Monk" From my 'Religion Series.' 2005. Sandstone cave. North from Lake Mead. Mojave Desert. Nevada