Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, 1918, signed lower left, inscribed to verso "No. 2555 - 18 x 12 - $500 / Original Sketch / Trees & Rocks / near Camp Curry / Yosemite National / Park, California / Painted Sept. 8. 1918. / J. E. Stuart," framed.
Frame dimensions 21 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.
James Everett Stuart studied with Thomas Hill and William Keith. His early work was greatly inspired by the French Barbizon school, but he found success with his plein air paintings of the American west and Alaska.
Faint stretcher marks; good estate condition.