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c. 1870s Original Oil Painting of Yosemite Valley Attributed to William Harring

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c. 1870s Original Oil Painting of Yosemite Valley Attributed to William Harring
Western America
Yosemite Valley View of El Capitan Attributed to Known San Francisco Western Artist William Harring
c. 1870s Vintage American Original Artwork, California & Western Oil Painting on Canvas of the Yosemite Valley with a View of El Capitan, Cathedral Spires and Bridal Falls, Unsigned, Attributed to Artist William Harring, Choice Very Fine.
This wonderful painting of the Yosemite Valley, is of the “American School” after Albert Bierstadt in style, from the third quarter of the 19th century, unsigned. It measures a large size 40.25” x 27.25” set in a modern, gilt-wood frame. The surface has overall expected areas of craquelure and some unobtrusive small points retouched. Overall, it is a quite alluring work of art, drawing the viewer in to the sublime beauty of Yosemite painted during the 1870s.

Born in Prussia in 1812, William Harring was brought to America by his family and later worked in Boston for the Louis Prang Company, before settling in San Francisco. He worked there as an oleographer at the Bosqui Printing Company in the 1870s-1890. Harring Exhibited at the San Francisco Art Ass’n, 1880-83 Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco in 1880, and at the California State Fair, 1881. Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940".