Tenaya Canyon from Union Point, Valley of the Yosemite
1872
Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print mounted on paperboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 43 x 53.8 cm (16 15/16 x 21 3/16 in.)
mount: 62 x 74.8 cm (24 7/16 x 29 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1997.31.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA; purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1997.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
Eadweard Muybridge, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2010 - 2011, no. 70.
Bibliography
1975
Naef, Weston J. Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885. Boston, 1975: pl. 80.
2010
Eadweard Muybridge. Exh. cat., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. London, 2010: no. 70.
Inscriptions
all on mount, printed in red ink: lower left: BRADLEY & RULOFSON / 429 Montgomery St. S.F., Publishers; lower center: Tenaya Canyon. Valley of the Yosemite. / FROM UNION POINT.; lower right: MUYBRIDGE, / Photo. / No. 35
Wikidata ID
Q64147020