09-10-200409-11-2004
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2249Boston
September 10, 2004 06:00 PMCalender
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Thomas Hill (American, 1829-1908) Yosemite View

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$31,725$27,000
Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2249Location: BostonDate / Time: September 10, 2004 6:00PM

Description:

Thomas Hill (American, 1829-1908)

Yosemite View
Signed "T.Hill" l.r.
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in. (60.9 x 50.8 cm),framed.
Condition: Surface grime, craquelure.

Provenance: A private New England collection.

N.B. Hill originally specialized in portraits and still lives, but, at the encouragement of his German tutor, Paul Mayerheim, he changed his focus to large scale landscape painting. In 1861, he visited the Yosemite Valley, which sparked a lifelong artistic obsession with the area. Over the next few years, Hill became well known and respected for his images of Yosemite, as well as for his style of loose brushwork juxtaposed with dabs of dry impasto.
Estimate $20,000-40,000

Keywords

Thomas Hill, Paul Mayerheim, New England, tutor