Object Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Ranch and Residence of John McCormick at Pomponia Creek, 1878 |
Object Name |
Lithograph |
Description |
Ranch and Residence of John McCormick at Pomponia Creek, 1878. Moore & DePue lithgraph by Grafton Tyler Brown hand-colored by Herbert Dengler of Portola Valley. Hand-painted framed lithograph depicting ranch and residence of John McCormick at Pomponia Creek. The image depicts a fenced-in ranch with a white house, stable, church or school, and a red barn. There are horses in the fenced yard by the stable, cattle behind the ranch in the hills, and a field of hay being harvested to the left of the stables. In front of the house and barn is an orchard and garden. A dirt road runs between the house and stable, upon which a couple are riding on a two-horse-drawn carriage. Church of school is surrounded by trees inside the fenced yard and has children and adults out front. Printed on white paper, mounted under glass into a gold wooden frame with an off-white mat with a red and blue edge. |
Date |
1878 |
Catalog Number |
1987.040.021 |
Collection |
Three-Dimensional Collection |
Creator |
Brown, Grafton Tyler |
Role |
Artist |
Creator |
G.T. Brown & CO. LITH., S.F. |
Role |
Lithographer |
Creator |
Moore & DePue |
Role |
Publisher |
Inscription Text |
"Moore & DePue,Pub.S.F. LITH.G.T.BROWN & CO. S.F. / Ranch and Residence of John Mc Cormick, Pomponia Creek, San Mateo Co. Cal." (beneath image) |
Notes |
Grafton Tyler Brown (February 22, 1841 – March 2, 1918) was an American painter, lithographer and cartographer. Brown was the first African-American artist to create works depicting the Pacific Northwest and California. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_Tyler_Brown 1/5/2022] Herb Dengler was born and raised in Palo Alto, where he attended Palo Alto schools, and graduated from Stanford with a degree in zoology… Mr. Dengler became the spirit of Jasper Ridge. With his encyclopedic knowledge of every rock and tree and insect, and his unfailing enthusiasm, he was a key player in establishing the 1,200-acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, which he continued visiting almost until his death last week. [Portola Valley artist and naturalist Herb Dengler dies By Marion Softky. Wednesday, September 25, 2002. https://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2002/2002_09_25.dengler.html 1/5/2022] Moore & DePue. In 1878, publishers Elliott S. Moore and James De Pue saw opportunity in San Mateo County... Brown divided production of sixty-four views with Britton & Rey, and the larger firm produced... twenty-two views along the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way, including fourteen in the county seat. While Britton & Rey canvassed the more prestigious areas, Brown sketched forty-one farms, residences, and businesses. Of fourteen views that filled two pages, Brown did eleven. Each lithographer used distinctive corner ornaments. Furthermore, Britton & Rey did the county map, while Brown provided the illustrated title page as his forty-second view. Brown's views illustrate his more sophisticated sense of contour and color of mountains, as well as the interplay of sky, cloud, and shadow, while Britton & Rey emphasized foreground people, horses, and houses and their shadows. Brown's shading of hills and clouds adds more depth than is normally found in scenes where the artist's view was expected only to inventory the property of the paying customer. After seven months of production, Moore and DePue praised the "skill and artistic finish" of the plates included in their Illustrated History of San Mateo County, and through the Redwood City newspaper on November 30, 1878, declared that "we are now delivering [them] to our subscribers." For those with second thoughts, the publishers offered, "a limited number can be purchased of our delivering agents while on their route. Price ten dollars." Today, this county history is in great demand. - Robert J. Chander, San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown (2014), pages 146-148. [https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/69670/california-san-mateo-county-moore-de-pues-illustrated-brown-co-depue-moore 1/5/2022] |
Dimensions |
H-15.25 W-18.375 D-0.75 inches |
Dimension Details |
Overall. |
Search Terms |
Pomponia Creek McCormick, John Lithographs Ranch Houses Residences-San Mateo County Churches Schools Cattle Barns Hills Horse Drawn Vehicles Children Farming Dairy farming |
Subjects |
Lithographs Lithography Ranch Houses Ranches Stables Churches Schools Cattle Hills Hay Barns Orchards Gardens Carriages & coaches Children |
People |
McCormick, John |
Credit line |
Courtesy of Robert & Joan Desky |