William Zorach (1887 - 1966) American. Watercolor on Paper. Measure 8 3/4"in H x 4 3/4"in W and 15 3/4"in H x 11 3/4"in W with frame. Known for: Abstract sculpture, modernist landscape and figure painting. Name variants: William Finkelstein. Of his experiences in Yosemite National Park, Zorach wrote in his autobiography, Art Is My Life, "I spent five months in the Yosemite Valley sketching, drawing, painting, and doing watercolors. . . Never had I dreamed of such awe-inspiring magnitude, such beauty and grandeur of forms. The tremendous waterfalls dropping from the blue sky thousands of feet into the valley, the domes and mountains of granite, the silent lakes, the rushing streams, the giant sequoias with their delicate fern-like needles and tremendous slabs of bark. I climbed all over the mountains with a sixty-pound pack of sketching materials and blankets on my back and slept out under the stars, naively undressing at night and putting on my pajamas and freezing until I had to get up and build a fire. The loneliness and vastness were overpowering. This was the garden of Eden, God's paradise. I sketched and painted in ecstasy."