2024 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 157
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Hamilton Hamilton (1847 – 1928)
Sunset, Yosemite (ca. 1900)
oil on canvas
24 × 36 inches
37 × 49 × 4 inches (framed)
signed lower right
VERSO
Label, The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Hamilton Hamilton was one of the finest painters of America’s Western frontier, capturing this scene of Yosemite Valley looking west from the Hetch Hetchy Valley. With Half Dome on the left, this view pointing towards the Pacific Ocean was lost forever when Hetch Hetchy was damed in 1910.
PROVENANCE
Scottsdale Art Auction, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2017