#106. El Capitan in a Gathering Storm.

  21.5 × 31, oil on canvas, relined. "Gilbert Munger 1876" lower right. The prospect is looking east from the valley floor along the Merced River. The same pale white treatment of El Capitan appears in paintings #185 and #200. Included in The Kennedy Quarterly, June 1966, p.69. Sold by them in 1987 as Yosemite Valley, California 1876. In the Grupp Archive, Sunnyvale California, by 1999. Did not sell at the Bonhams Los Angeles California and Western Paintings auction of 11 April 2017, lot 6, with an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000. William A. Karges Fine Art of Carmel CA advertised it by email in February 2022. Image from author's photo.