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The Oakland Museum, Art Department, Published 1980. Wraps, 64 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated with 10 color and 26 black-and-white plates of paintings, plus a photograph of the artist; issued as the catalogue for the 1980-1981 traveling retrospective.
In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial wraps with a full color reproduction of Hill's "Yosemite Valley (El Capitan and Bridal Veil Fall)" on the front and bright orange-red rear cover. A 1/2 inch tear to the front cover along the fold of the spine; light bumping and creasing to edges and corners; mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A silver Anchorage Museum Shop sticker (a small affiliate sticker that photographs as black) is affixed to the title page, with a smaller partial sticker remnant in the upper outer corner of the same page. The catalogue accompanying the 1980-1981 traveling retrospective Thomas Hill: The Grand View, organized by The Oakland Museum and circulated to the Tacoma Art Museum, the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha), the Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, and the Midland Center for the Arts (Michigan). Marjorie Dakin Arkelian's biographical essay traces Hill's career from his birth in Birmingham, England, through his apprenticeships in Massachusetts and his European study, to his decades in California where he became, with Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, one of the defining painters of the American West. The text follows Hill from his early New England landscapes through his Yosemite "grand views," his commission for "The Driving of the Last Spike" at Promontory Point (1881), his Muir Glacier painting commissioned by John Muir's circle at Glacier Bay, Alaska (now in the collection of the Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum), and his late Wawona studio years. With preface by George W. Neubert, Curator of the Exhibition; chronology, notes, selected bibliography, catalogue of works, and list of lenders.