Permanent Collection Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
1965.11262 |
Collection |
Painting Collection |
Title |
Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley |
Date |
1863 |
Artist |
Thomas Hill (1829-1908) |
Signature |
T.Hill 1863 |
Signature Location |
Bottom of canvas, viewer's left |
Description |
This large-scale landscape painting was created by Thomas Hill (1829-1908) around 1863. Hill was considered a Hudson River School artist whose majestic and idealistic landscape paintings celebrated and validated this emerging nation's westward expansion. In the nineteenth century, as the United States increased its territorial holdings by removing Indigenous Americans from their ancestral lands, nostalgic depictions like this one of pristine landscapes and the "noble Indian" became increasingly popular. In this work, the main subject isn't the encampment of the Ahwahnechee, the Yosemite Miwok, Northern Paiute, Kucadikadi Mono Lake peoples, it's the American, majestic Yosemite Valley landscape. |
Medium |
Oil, Canvas |
Technique |
Painted |
Height (in) |
33.000 |
Width (in) |
42.000 |
Culture |
American |
School |
Hudson River School |
Place of Origin |
Raymond, California, United States |
Credit Line |
Purchase, Friends of Art |
People |
Purchase, Friends of Art |
Search Terms |
American Art American Artists American Indians American Paintings Animals Figures, Men Figures, Women Horses Hudson River School Indigenous Americans Lakes Landscapes Mountains National Parks Native Americans Oil Paintings Paintings Raymond, California Trees Water Yosemite Valley |
Location |
On view in the Shirley Gorsuch Gallery, 1st Floor |