Piwyac, Vernal Fall, 300 feet, Yosemite
1861
Artist, American, 1829 - 1916
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 39.9 x 52.3 cm (15 11/16 x 20 9/16 in.)
mount: 53.2 x 68.7 cm (20 15/16 x 27 1/16 in.)
mat: 66 x 76.1 cm (26 x 29 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1995.35.23
More About this Artwork
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
David and Mary Robinson, Sausalito, CA; gift to NGA, 1995.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
The First Century of Photography: New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
1999
Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000, no. 12, as Piwac, Vernal Falls, 300 feet, Yosemite.
2015
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015
2019
The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1989
Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs 1861-1874. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, in Association with Bedford Arts, Publishers, 1989, illus. pl.30.
1999
Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000: no. 12.
Inscriptions
lower right in black ink: C.E. Watkins; lower right in graphite: Piwyac - Vernal Fall, 300 ft Yosemite; by later hand: upper right in graphite: 58-
Wikidata ID
Q64145656