Covered Bridge - O'Byrnes Ferry (a.k.a. - Near Columbia) by Charles Frederick Surendorf
Covered Bridge - O'Byrnes Ferry (a.k.a. - Near Columbia)
Charles Frederick Surendorf
Title
Covered Bridge - O'Byrnes Ferry (a.k.a. - Near Columbia)
Artist
Charles Frederick Surendorf
1906 - 1979 (biography)Year
c. 1950
Technique
wood engraving
Image Size
10 1/2 x 17" image size
Signature
pencil signed, lower right
Edition Size
Ed/100
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned
Reference
Paper
ivory tissue wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
25453
Price
$225.00
Description
A California Regionalist landscape that also serves as an historic document: Surendorf captures the former O'Byrnes Ferry Bridge that once spanned the Stanislaus River between Tuolomne and Calaveras counties, before the area was flooded for a reservoir in 1957. The bridge was built during the Gold Rush and among its storied past are tales of the bandido Tiburico Vasquez, who used the bridge while escaping capture by the local sheriff. What remains of the structure now rests beneath eighty feet of water.