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Gunnar Widforss Catalogue Raisonné Project

Catalogue entry

no. 554
Sierra Cliff
Alternate title: Cathedral Rock, Yosemite
1928
Watercolor
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left: Widforss
Current location unknown
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Image: Artist's scrapbook
Provenance
Bishop William Scarlett, St. Louis, Missouri and Dyce's Head, Castine, Maine
Sherman Hazeltine, First National Bank, Phoenix, Arizona
Current location unknown
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 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
Sierra Cliff, 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.
Keywords
Record last updated September 22, 2020. 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 April 26, 2024).