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Photography by Edward C. Robison III
Yosemite Falls
Photography by Edward C. Robison III

Yosemite Falls

Artist (1829 - 1908)
Date1884
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions53 1/2 × 35 1/4 in. (135.9 × 89.5 cm)
Framed: 60 1/4 × 42 1/4 × 2 3/16 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.12
Signedl.l.: T. Hill / 1884
Accession number 2014.12
On View
Not on view
Provenancepurchased by Charles H. Price [1931-2012], late 1970s; by descent to Private Collection, 2010; (Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2014
Label TextAs North America’s tallest waterfall, rising 2,425 feet above the Yosemite Valley floor, the physicality, size, and symbolic potential of Yosemite Falls presented a challenge for artists.

Thomas Hill, a San Francisco-based painter associated with the Hudson River School of landscape painting, chose a vertical composition to capture the grandness of the popular tourist site. He even included a small fisherman in the foreground to convey the scale of the scene. This is one of many paintings Hill created depicting scenes of the Yosemite Valley.

Al ser las más altas de Norteamérica y elevarse a más de 730 metros sobre el suelo del valle de Yosemite, la apariencia, el tamaño y el potencial simbólico de las Cataratas de Yosemite representaron un reto para los artistas.

Thomas Hill, pintor con sede en San Francisco y vinculado a la Escuela de Paisajismo del Río Hudson, eligió una composición vertical para captar la magnificencia del popular lugar turístico. Incluso incluyó un pequeño pescador en primer plano para mostrar la escala de la escena. Éste es uno de los muchos cuadros que Hill pintó con escenas del valle de Yosemite.
Markingsverso, on stretcher, paper stamp: No. 159 / Picture
verso, on stretcher, ink stamp: INVENTORY / OCT 1951
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