Title:
The Grizzly
Creator/Contributor:
Hill, Thomas, 1829-1908, artist
Abstract:
Content/DescriptionGiant Sequoia with two figures on horseback in foreground.
Date:
[ca. 1890]
Subject:
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Giant sequoia -- California -- Pictorial works
Grizzly Giant (Tree) -- Pictorial works
Mariposa Grove (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Note:
Gift of Warren Howell, 1971. A sale catalog of Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York) for Feb. 11-13, 1903, lists a pair
of Hill paintings on "two panels from giant trees of California", "The Grizzly and the Neowna [sic]," which were from "the
Fields' collection." Several other lots are noted as from the collection of Justice Stephen Field, including another by Hill.
(See: Catalogue of high-class oil paintings by American and European artists. Lot 84. https://archive.org/details/b1491310
; visited December 2017.) There is no firm evidence linking the Bancroft Library panels to the items in this sale.;
Type:
Oil paintings
Physical Description:
1 painting on wood panel : oil ; 106.6 x 17.7 cm.
Signature (LR): T. Hill. Title (LC): The / Grizzly.
Local Call Number:
BANC PIC 1971.011--FR
Filename:
brk00001167_20a.tif
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