River View of the Royal Arches, Yosemite, 1861

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 40.96 × 52.39 cm (16 1/8 × 20 5/8 in.)

sheet: 53.02 × 68.26 cm (20 7/8 × 26 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, with funds from the bequest of Marva Patterson to the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Gift of Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt)

Accession Number

2015.19.5009

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

signed by artist, bottom right below image in brown ink: C. E. Watkins –; bottom right along edge in graphite: River View of the Royal Arches–; by unknown hand, upper right outside image: 45–; bottom center along edge: CEW.188.X

Provenance

(Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco); partial purchase and gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2005; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Fraenkel Gallery

Exhibition History

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 1 – July 27, 2008

Bibliography

1989: Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs 1861-1874. Exh. cat. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 1989: pl. 27.

2010: Eadweard Muybridge. Exh. cat., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. London, 2010: 42, 355, fig. 24.

2011: Naef, Weston and Christine Hult-Lewis. Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2011: 100, no. 225.