Tahoe: A Visual History

Figure 178. Albert Bierstadt, Lake Tahoe, California, 1867, Oil on canvas, 21⅞ x 30 inches, Collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865, Photograph © 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Figure 177. Albert Bierstadt, Lake Tahoe, California, 1863, Oil on paper, 14 x 19 inches, Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Figure 211. William F. Jackson, Soda Springs, 1885, Oil on canvas, 22 x 36 inches, Collection of Roger and Kathy Carter

Figure 212. Edwin Deakin, Donner Lake, circa 1876, Oil on canvas, 24⅛ x 36⅛ inches, Private Collection

Figure 221. Thomas Moran, Tahoe, 1879, Watercolor on paper, 10⅞ x 14 inches, Collection of Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Figure 222. Thomas Moran, Lake Tahoe, 1879, Watercolor on paper, 11¼ x 14½ inches, Courtesy of Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Figure 223. Thomas Hill, Mount Tallac from Lake Tahoe, 1880, Oil on canvas, 35⅝ x 55⅞ inches, Collection of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Bequest of M. H. de Young

Figure 230. John M. Gamble, Lakeside Figure 228. Arthur B. Davies, Lake

Trail, Glenbrook, Lake Tahoe, circa 1908,

Tahoe, circa 1905, Oil on wood, 5⅜

Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 inches, Private

x 9⅜ inches, Collection of Oakland

Collection

Museum of California, Gift of Concours d’Antiques, Art Guild

Figure 229. Arthur B. Davies, Emerald Bay, circa 1905, Oil on wood, 5⅛ x 9⅜ inches, Collection of Oakland Museum of California, Gift of Concours d’Antiques, Art Guild

PRINTING TAHOE AND DONNER

Figure 331. Frances Gearhart, Lake Tahoe (detail), 1933, Color block print, 10⅞ x 12 inches,

Ann M. Wolfe

Collection of Constance K. Howard and Scott W. Tyler

A

lthough etching and engraving were deeply entwined with the history of fine art in Europe beginning as early as the fifteenth century, in the United

States prints produced using these methods were reserved primarily for illustrated newspapers starting in the 1800s. Since photography, and the method for reproducing photographic images, was not widely employed until the early twentieth century, print publications depended on skilled engravers to illustrate their works. Newspaper editors hired artists to make sketches that were translated into visual representations suitable for reproduction. ¶ One of the most popular publications of the late nineteenth century was known as Picturesque America, published monthly by D. Appleton out of New York. The ambitious volume combined essays with illustrated wood and steel engravings and provided its subscribers with a visual tour of America in 1872. The celebrated watercolorist and painter Thomas Moran © 2015 Skira Rizzoli Publications. All Rights Reserved 342

Figure 347. W. T. De Lappe, Lake Tahoe, Southern Pacific, 1923, Poster, 22½ x 14¼ inches, Courtesy of California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento

Figure 348. Maurice Logan, Lake Tahoe, Southern Pacific, 1922, Poster, 20¾ x

Figure 349. Maurice Logan, Tahoe Lake

14⅛ inches, Courtesy of California

Region, 1927, Poster, 23 x 16 inches,

History Room, California State Library,

Courtesy of California History Room,

Sacramento

California State Library, Sacramento

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