American Falls from Luna Island

1870s

Platt D. Babbitt

Associated Names
Platt D. Babbitt

Artist, American, c. 1822 - 1879

The image depicts a frozen waterfall seen from a slightly elevated viewpoint. The wooden-framed scene showcases cascading icicles and frozen formations in the foreground, with a row of barren trees and some buildings visible against a pale sky in the background. The color palette is muted and monochromatic, primarily white, gray, and black, capturing the cold winter landscape. The differing textures of the smooth water's surface and rough icicles are notable.

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery M72

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    glass transparency

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.5 × 19.1 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
    framed: 32.3 × 27.2 × 2.6 cm (12 11/16 × 10 11/16 × 1 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.69.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Larry Gottheim, Yonkers, NY); NGA purchase, 2017.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

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

Wikidata ID

Q64158840

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