Piwyac, Vernal Fall, 300 feet, Yosemite, 1861

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 39.9 x 52.3 cm (15 11/16 x 20 9/16 in.)
mount: 53.2 x 68.7 cm (20 15/16 x 27 1/16 in.)
mat: 66 x 76.1 cm (26 x 29 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and David Robinson

Accession Number

1995.35.23

Artists / Makers

Carleton E. Watkins (artist) American, 1829 - 1916

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in black ink: C.E. Watkins; lower right in graphite: Piwyac - Vernal Fall, 300 ft Yosemite; by later hand: upper right in graphite: 58-

Provenance

David and Mary Robinson, Sausalito, CA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Fraenkel Gallery
Robinson, Mrs. C. David

Exhibition History

1995: The First Century of Photography: New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

1999: Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000, no. 12, as Piwac, Vernal Falls, 300 feet, Yosemite.

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1989: Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs 1861-1874. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, in Association with Bedford Arts, Publishers, 1989, illus. pl.30.

1999: Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000: no. 12.