Feb 18, 2021 - Sale 2558

Sale 2558 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

DELLA TAYLOR HOSS (1900-1997)

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK CALIFORNIA. 1955.


18 1/4x24 1/2 inches, 46 1/4x62 1/4 cm. Schwabacher Frey, San Francisco.
Condition B+: repaired tears at edges; replaced losses, overpainting and repaired pin holes in corners.

Hoss was a printmaker, painter and illustrator, born in Illinois. She grew up and studied in California, and always had a family connection to the National Park Service. Her husband was an official at The Yosemite Park and Curry Company, and the couple lived in Yosemite valley for many years. Della illustrated Mary Curry Tresidder's book Trees of Yosemite (1932) with thirty-four Art Deco-style linoleum block prints of trees and cones.