Bill Zorach walking under big tree, Yosemite, California – Antique Wall Art
![Bill Zorach walking under big tree, Yosemite, California, [1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/00/0014cbf4d90c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Bill Zorach walking under big tree, Yosemite, California, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bill Zorach walking under big tree, Yosemite, California
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Bill Zorach, the painter and sculptor better known as William Zorach, is shown here walking beneath a towering tree, with the scale of the trunk dwarfing him. His note on the back of the print explains the trip: he hiked some 40 miles with a 60-pound pack of sketching materials to reach the big sequoias, hoping to feel the country as the first explorers had. The journey reflects the wilderness-minded travel of the early 1920s, when artists and writers were drawn to Yosemite and its groves as a way of connecting with the American landscape.
| Created / published | [1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1920.Photographic prints 1920. |
| Notes | Title from item. Written on back: I walked 40 miles with a 60 pound pack of sketching material to the big sequoias so as to get the feeling of the country as those men who first got there. WZ |
| Subjects | Zorach, William,--1887-1966--Travels--California--Yosemite National Park. Redwoods--California--Yosemite National Park--1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,135 × 6,474 px · prints to 17 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-212684 |
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