2025 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 264264 / 354 • View Catalog •
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VERSO
Label, Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York
Hill biographer Janice T. Driesbach wrote, “In his time, Hill earned favorable comparison with Albert Bierstadt in the East Coast press (on his return to the United States from Europe in 1867), and received highest honors for landscape painting (at the Philadelphia Centennial). By the early 1870s, his monumental canvases of Yosemite commanded five thousand dollars apiece and attracted national critical acclaim. This recognition afforded Hill a leading role among California artists while San Francisco was becoming established as a major American art center. His residency there brought credibility and attention to Northern California artists as they developed their skills and reputations.
“Hill frequently showed Native American artifacts or figures in his Yosemite scenes. For, in contrast to Bierstadt, whose monumental compositions were often bereft of people or man-made elements, Hill seldom omitted human references from his large paintings, and often included them in smaller works as well.”
PROVENANCE
Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, ca. 1970s
Private collection, Playa Vista, California
