Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project
Catalogue entry
no. 554
Sierra Cliff
Alternate title: Cathedral Rock, Yosemite
1928
Watercolor on paper
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left: Widforss
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Image: Artist's scrapbook
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Provenance
Exhibitions
California Watercolor Society, Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art (now the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History), Los Angeles, California Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition, November 28, 1928, no. 91, as Sierra Cliff.
Published References
Henry Miller. "Watercolor Adventures." Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles), October 14, 1928.
Notes
This painting, depicting Cathedral Rock in Yosemite Valley, won First Prize, People's Choice Award, California Watercolor Society Exhibition, Los Angeles, 1928. "Gunnar Widforss takes us before a great granite cliff of the Sierras and points out its intense reality." Los Angeles Time, October 14, 1928.
Keywords
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Record last updated September 13, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Petersen, Alan. "Sierra Cliff, 1928 (no. 554)." In Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project. www.gunnarwidforss.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=554 (accessed on October 4, 2024).