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The composition draws on Sayre's better-known California desert and mountain landscape paintings, carrying that same dramatic staging and saturated color into the print medium. Printed and copyrighted in 1929 by Tonge Art Co. of Los Angeles, the piece is on paper, archival float mounted, and currently housed in a gold-tone wood molding frame with a wide double white mat under UV-filtering plexiglass.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSigned in the print, lower left: \u003cem\u003eF. Grayson Sayre\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLower right, embossed:\u003cem\u003e Copyright 1929, Tonge Art Co. 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