PAINTINGS OF YOSEMITE PAST AND PRESENT
A Special Exhibition of Yosemite Paintings at the North Point Gallery, San Francisco
September 16 through October 9, 2010
This exhibition has come about because of the rediscovery of two important paintings held in private collections since the nineteenth century—William Keith’s Sentinel Rock (1872), owned by four generations of a Bay Area family, and Thomas Hill’s Yosemite Valley (1886), sold from his Wawona studio to a Massachusetts family. These works are available for purchase, as will be a selection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings by such artists as Charles Dormon Robinson, Jules Tavernier and L.P. Latimer.
Among the available paintings will be several Yosemite views by living artists, including Michael Coleman, John Cosby, Gil Dellinger, Paul Kratter, and Joseph Paquet. The exhibition will also feature notfor- sale paintings borrowed from various owners, including a rare Thomas Ayres drawing from the 1850s and a Bierstadt field study of Yosemite Falls. The exhibition will demonstrate how talented landscape painters of all periods and styles have found inspiration at Yosemite.
The North Point Gallery
407 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone: 415 781-7550 Fax: 415 781-7553
Email: Info@northpointgallery.com
Website: www.northpointgallery.com
