Print, Photographic
- Title:
- El Capitan, Yosemite
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.078
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of El Capitan, Yosemite, CA, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of El Capitan cliff rising above Merced River; green conifer trees along river bank; blue sky with pink clouds. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "El Capitan, Yosemite" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown paper on back of frame, now covered with newer paper. Original paper bears a printed paper label in bottom left corner, visible through cutout in new paper: "The Sawyer Pictures / 55 Pleasant Street / CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE / No. [blank] Price [blank] / If it isn't a Sawyer Picture / it isn't the Best." One of two prints from same negative.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-9.6 W-7.25 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.
- 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, Cliffs, Rock formations
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