The murals of Yosemite are inspired ...

by the extraordinary beauty of the Yosemite Valley, the words of John Muir, and the paintings by artist Albert Bierstadt.  On a sentimental journey through California, Bill spent three months camped in Yosemite and sketching from different viewpoints of the valley and its surrounding granite cliffs.  From those sketches, he designed and built the first mural, 8'3"  X 14'3", showing  Half Dome in the Fall, bathed in the orange evening sunlight.  The Fall Mural, titled "Tissiack" ( the Ahwahneechee Native Americans' name for the Half Dome) took 2 years to complete and was on display at the Ahwahnee Hotel in 1989, and at the visitor's center in Yosemite in 1990 for the Centennial Celebration.

The Winter mural, completed in 2008, is a winter night with the full moon rising over the Cathedral Rocks, and El Capitan on the other side of the snow covered valley.  The Yosemite Murals are on display at our gallery in Arnold.  Bill is completing the design for the Spring mural with the goal of completing all four seasons and finding a permanent home in a public venue.

“Winter”

“Tissiack”

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Bill Poulson highlights some details of mural design.

Video by Ken Jones, Calaverasgold.tv