John Joseph Englehart (1867-1915) American, "Indian Encampment in Yosemite Valley" Oil on Canvas signed lower right. A very large oil on canvas in its original frame. Englehart's paintings are in many museum collections, and his paintings of Yosemite are his most important. He was concerned about the preservation of Yosemite in natural state. Large scale paintings were very effective in showing the majesty of Yosemite leading ultimately to it becoming a National Park. Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins were among the prominent individuals who purchased large scale paintings from Englehart and other artists. 

Condition as pictured.

Provenance: Private collection, California.

Overall Size: 49 x 67 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 39 x 57 in. 

Joseph John Englehart (1867-1915) was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 14, 1867. During the late 1880s and 1890s, he maintained a studio in San Francisco on Clay Street and a residence across the bay in Alameda. An itinerant artist, while in Tacoma, Washington in the late 1890s, he did many landscapes of that area; in 1902-04 he had a studio in Portland, Oregon. In 1909, he was in New York where one of his landscapes was awarded a prize. In 1910 Englehart was again a resident of Alameda at 1122 College Avenue where he remained until his death in Oakland on April 14, 1915. A prolific painter, he is known throughout the Northwest for his oils of Oregon, Washington, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, Mount Shasta, and Alameda County. Although he used J. Enright, Lang, J. Hart, and other pseudonyms, his most frequently used signatures on his oil appear to be "J. Englehart" or "J. J. Englehart" and occasionally "J. Englehart."  However one should keep in mind that "there are likely dozens of paintings done by Englehart, which have surfaced and have been signed with some other name.

Condition as pictured.