Yosemite Falls

From Mattatuck Museum

Thomas Hill (created by)
Mattatuck Historical Soc (owned by)

1890s (Date manufactured/created)

Oil

canvas, painting

Impressionistic painting of Yosemite Falls; a fisherman and his dog are visible in the foreground. THe scale and style of painting suggest that this work was done in the 1890s, when the artist adopted an impressionist handling of paint, applied with broad strokes, rather than carefully applied detial. Charactoristic of Hill, as opposed to others who painted Yosemite (like Albert Bierstadt), the painting is filled with light which shows each feature of the popular waterfall's cliff structure accurately. The figure of the fisherman dramatizes the scale of the cliff and the waterfall, at the same time that it records the recreational activity of the ever increasing number of tourists to the site.

Gift of Mildred Thaler Cohen, 1999; Seymour R. Thaler and Mildred Thaler Cohen Collection

Accession/ID Number 99.25.26