Ausable Chasm - Up the River from Table Rock

c. 1880

Seneca Ray Stoddard

Associated Names
Seneca Ray Stoddard

Artist, American, 1843 - 1917

The image shows a narrow canyon with towering rock walls on either side, viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. The horizon is obscured as the canyon continues into the distance, where the rocks rise steeply and enclose the view. The texture and details of the canyon walls are rugged and layered, creating strong vertical lines. The color palette is monochromatic in shades of sepia, emphasizing the contrast between the rocks and the water at the base of the chasm. Close to us, large flat rocks lead the viewer's gaze along the canyon. In the background, the canyon walls converge and are topped with a sparse growth of trees.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen silver print

  • Credit Line

    Veverka Family Foundation Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 33.8 x 25.8 cm (13 5/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
    mount: 35.1 x 27.8 cm (13 13/16 x 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.18.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Glens Falls Historical Society, Glens Falls, New York; (Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2017

  • East of the Mississippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 2017 - 2018, no. 166.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on image: S.R. Stoddard.; across bottom of image in letterpress: 60. Ausable Chasm - Up the River from Table Rock. S.R. Stoddard, Photographer, Glen's Falls.; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: PF 5350

Wikidata ID

Q64170485

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