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Half Dome. Yo-Semite by James David Smillie
Half Dome. Yo-Semite
James David Smillie
Title
Half Dome. Yo-Semite
Artist
James David Smillie
1833 - 1909 (biography)Year
1871
Technique
oil on gessoed paper
Image Size
16 1/8 x 13 1/4" image
Signature
signed in pigment with monogram JDS in lower right
Edition Size
Annotations
in pigment in lower right: Half Dome./ Yo-Semite. Aug. '71; exhibition label verso from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Reference
Paper
State
Publisher
Inventory ID
BC229
Price
SOLD
Description
This painting was included in the exhibition "James David Smillie" mounted at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in 1978. James D. Smillie visited Yosemite with his brother George in 1871 during the summer months of June through September. In the Yosemite section of "Picturesque America," Smillie described the view from the base of Sentinel Fall: "From the foot of Sentinel Fall an excellent view may be had of the meadows, the
Against a background of storm-cloud their forms stand wan and ghost-like; in the blinding glare of the mid-day sun they faint, almost indistinguishable; and, at sunset, they glow with a ruddy light, that is slowly extinguished by the upcreeping shadows of night, until the highest point flames for one moment, then dies, ashy pale, under the glory that is lifted to the sky above."
8/12/14
Against a background of storm-cloud their forms stand wan and ghost-like; in the blinding glare of the mid-day sun they faint, almost indistinguishable; and, at sunset, they glow with a ruddy light, that is slowly extinguished by the upcreeping shadows of night, until the highest point flames for one moment, then dies, ashy pale, under the glory that is lifted to the sky above."
8/12/14