Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Merced River, Yosemite Valley
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.232
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1920-1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Merced River, Yosemite Valley, CA, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of Yosemite Valley with Merced River in foreground; purple-tinted rock formations on each side; mountains in distance; blue sky with pink (now tan) clouds, reflected in the river. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "Merced River, Yosemite Valley" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown backing paper with printed label, lower left: "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-7.4 W-9.5 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, Rivers
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