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| Keywords: Nahl 1851-1852, Miners in the Sierras.jpg Artwork Creator Charles Christian Nahl Creator Frederick August Wenderoth Miners in the Sierras 1851-1852 Oil on canvas cm 137 7 169 8 Fred Heilbron Collection Smithsonian American Art Museum Shortly after the discovery of gold along the American River near Sacramento in 1848 Charles Nahl left his native Germany and headed to California to seek his fortune This scene painted with his partner August Wenderoth who provided the background landscape is the first-known oil of an early gold camp In Miners in the Sierras four miners are hard at work along either side of the long tom a wooden apparatus used to wash the gold from rocks and sand The vigorous labors of the two men in their red white and blue shirts are depicted with the skill we would expect of artists who had European academic training AmericanArt http //americanart si edu/collections/search/artwork/ id 18174 PD-old-100 Other versions Charles Christian Nahl Frederick August Wenderoth Realist genre paintings Paintings of nature | ||||
