Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Yosemite Falls
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.179
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Yosemite Falls, CA, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of Yosemite Falls dropping over wall of Yosemite Valley; Merced River and large tree in foreground; blue sky with pink clouds. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Yosemite Falls" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown backing paper with printed label in bottom left corner: "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."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-4.25 W-2.75 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:
- Waterfalls, Yosemite Valley
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