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Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project

Catalogue entry

no. 554
Cathedral Rock, Yosemite
Alternate title: Sierra Cliff
1928
Watercolor on paper
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left: Widforss
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Image: Link Auction Galleries
Cathedral Rock, Yosemite, 1928 (no. 554)
Image: Link Auction Galleries
Cathedral Rock, Yosemite, 1928 (no. 554)
Image: Link Auction Galleries
Provenance
Bishop William Scarlett, St. Louis, Missouri and Dyce's Head, Castine, Maine
Sherman Hazeltine, First National Bank, Phoenix, Arizona
Link Auction Galleries, St. Louis, 2024
Exhibitions
1928 California Watercolor Society
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
Los Angeles Times 1928
"Vox Populi." Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles), November 18, 1928.
Los Angeles Times 1928
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.

Additional Images
Cathedral Rock, Yosemite, 1928 (no. 554). Black and white photograph of the painting in the artist's scrapbook.
Black and white photograph of the painting in the artist's scrapbook.
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Record last updated December 16, 2024. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Petersen, Alan. "Cathedral Rock, Yosemite, 1928 (no. 554)." In Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project. www.gunnarwidforss.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=554 (accessed on May 1, 2025).