Yosemite National Park in Mariposa County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)

The Art of Thomas Hill

Hill's Studio Yosemite National Park

— Inspiring Preservation —

The Art of Thomas Hill Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Allen C. Browne, June 5, 2015

1. The Art of Thomas Hill Marker

Inscription. Along with other accomplished artists of his time, including Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, Thomas Hill's large-scale oil paintings of Yosemite captured the attention of people across America, visually introducing them to magnificence of Yosemite. The works of these artists played a major role in the preservation of America's first national parks.

Yosemite's natural beauty inspires people around the world to create art. Famed landscape artist Thomas Hill lived and worked at the Wawona Hotel from 1884 until death in 1908. Built in the 1880s, this studio served as a gathering place for Yosemite visitors, many of who purchased his fine paintings.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Arts, Letters, Music. A significant historical year for this entry is 1884.

Location. 37° 32.231′ N, 119° 39.321′ W. Marker is in Yosemite National Park, California, in Mariposa County. It is on Wawona Road. At the Wawona Hotel in Yosemite National Park. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 8308 Wawona Road, Yosemite National Park CA 95389, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in California’s Sierra Nevada.

It is also in the American Mountain West.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Pacific Rim,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain

and also Mexico’s Alta California.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 9 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Wawona Hotel (within shouting distance of this marker); Sustaining the Mariposa Grove (approx. 3½ miles away); Celebrating the Mariposa Grove

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(approx. 3½ miles away); A New Vision for an Ancient Grove (approx. 3½ miles away); The Surviving Tunnel Tree (approx. 3½ miles away); Enduring Giant (approx. 3.8 miles away); Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad (approx. 5.8 miles away); William M. Sell Jr. Memorial Bridge (approx. 8.3 miles away).

Photographed by Allen C. Browne, June 5, 2015

2. The Art of Thomas Hill Marker

Thomas Hill's Studio image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Allen C. Browne, June 5, 2015

3. Thomas Hill's Studio

now the Wawona Visitors Center

Portrait of Thomas Hill image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Allen C. Browne, June 5, 2015

4. Portrait of Thomas Hill

Close-up of relief image on marker

Yosemite Valley<br>(El Captain & Bridalveil Fall) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Allen C. Browne, June 5, 2015

5. Yosemite Valley
(El Captain & Bridalveil Fall)

Close-up of Thomas Hill painting on marker

Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite (1872) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Wikipedia

6. Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite (1872)

This Thomas Hill painting hangs in the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on June 7, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. This page has been viewed 757 times since then and 28 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on June 7, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.