Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Gates of Yosemite
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.030
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- circa 1926
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Gates of Yosemite, CA, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of Yosemite Valley with El Capitan on left, Cathedral Rocks and Bridalveil Fall on right; Merced River and flowering shrub in foreground; blue sky with pink clouds. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Gates of Yosemite" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Backing paper (not original) has no Sawyer imprint. One of four prints from same negative.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7.25 W-9.5 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.
Pages from the January 21, 1926, Boston Herald were used as filler when this photograph was originally framed. - Credit Line:
- John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs
- People:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
- Subjects:
- Yosemite Valley, Rivers, Waterfalls
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