
Thomas Hill(1829-1908)Canoe Party Landing, Alaska 12 x 18 1/4in overall: 21 x 27in
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Thomas Hill (1829-1908)
signed 'T. Hill' (lower right)
watercolor on paper
12 x 18 1/4in
overall: 21 x 27in
Painted circa 1887
Footnotes
Provenance
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, New York.
Wortsman-Rowe Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Braarud Fine Art, La Conner, Washington.
Exhibited
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, no date.
Oakland, The Oakland Museum, Thomas Hill: The Grand View, September 9, 1980 - June 1, 1981.
This work is listed as no. 74 in the Catalogue of the Paintings and Sketches of the late Thomas Hill, by Robert R. Hill, 1910.
In 1887, the naturalist John Muir asked the artist to accompany him to Alaska and paint a series of works in and around the Muir Glacier. Hill jumped at the opportunity, eager to leave behind his job as interim director of the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and a rocky marriage. Together Hill and Muir embarked on a cruise to Alaska, which introduced Hill along the way to new landscapes in the Pacific Northwest and Canada.