Thomas Hill (1829-1908) Yosmite Valley (1892) 22" x 29 1/2" Oil on Canvas Back to Artists Wanted List

Born in Birmingham, England in 1829, Hill emigrated with his family to Taunton, Massachusetts in 1844. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in Paris. He traveled to San Francisco in 1861 with his wife and children and opened a studio there in 1862. He built a studio in Yosemite in 1883 and spent most of his time there, although he maintained a San Francisco studio and wintered in Raymond, near Yellowstone.

In 1886, at the invitation of John Muir, he traveled to Alaska and continued to paint some Alaskan pictures from his 1886 sketches. Hill died in Raymond in June of 1908.

Although best known for his Yosemite paintings, Hill painted White Mountain scenes, most of the West Coast mountains, and fly-fishing pictures as well as Alaskan scenery.

Braarud Fine Art is interested in all works by Thomas Hill, as well as some by his brother, Edward Hill (1843-1923) and his son, Edward Rufus Hill (1851-1908).