Tenaya Canyon from Union Point, Valley of the Yosemite, 1872

Not on View

Medium

albumen print mounted on paperboard

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.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel Fund

Accession Number

1997.31.1

Artists / Makers

Eadweard Muybridge (artist) American, born England, 1830 - 1904

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA; purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Fraenkel Gallery

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.