William Wendt (1865-1946) Stony Slope signed '·WILLIAM WENDT·' (lower left) and titled (on the stretcher bar) oil on canvas 25 x 30in framed 27 1/2 x 32 1/2in Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, Oregon. Sale, Bonhams, Los Angeles, California and Western Paintings and Sculpture, August 7, 2018, lot 71. Private collection, Ohio. In the mid 1920's, Wendt painted in and around the Nine Sisters, or the Morros - a chain of nine volcanic mountains and hills in western San Luis Obispo County. The present work is thought to be from this region.