Tenaya Canyon from Union Point, Valley of the Yosemite

1872

Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print mounted on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • 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


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