The Lonely Road
The Lonely Road typically appears without the addition of this cowboy and his two horses, emphasizing, literally, the empty road.
The photographer made this combination print in the darkroom by first creating a separate negative of the cowboy (blown up to match a foreground landscape) from his photograph Yosemite Cowboy and sandwiching it with his original negative of The Lonely Road.
The original photograph of Yosemite Cowboy probably dates to the late 1920’s, although it could be from a later visit.
This hand-colored lithobrome print has been varnished, seen here in its unconserved state.
