Carleton watkins

Maker: Carlton E. Watkins (1829 - 1916) Born: USA Active: USA Medium: albumen print Size: 11.5 in x 7.75 in Location: USA Object No. 2009.071 Shelf: C-24 Publication: Era of Exploration, The Rise Of Landscape Photography in the American West 1860-1885. by Weston J. Naef. Albright-Knox Art Gallery/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, pl 7 Carleton Watkins, Photographer of the American West, by Peter Palmquist, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1983, pg 30 Nineteenth Century…

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A new museum exhibit celebrates America's natural legacy.

Carleton E. Watkins. The Sentinel, Echo Canyon, Utah. 1873-1874. Albumen silver print. 20 × 15 1/16" (50.8 × 38.2 cm). Acquired through the generosity of Arthur M. Bullowa. 605.1983. Photography

Carleton Watkins (U.S.A., 1829-1916) 'Arch at the West End, Farallones' 1868-1869

Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of twelve rare, mammoth-plate photographs by Carleton Watkins, considered by many to be the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century. Watkins was the focus of the gallery’s first exhibition in September 1979, and the present project marks the beginning of a season-long celebration of Fraenkel Gallery’s […]

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The definitive photographer of the American west made his name with these photographs of California’s Yosemite Valley, currently on show at New York’s Met. The series inspired President Lincoln to sign a bill preserving the valley’s beauty and laying the foundations for the US National Park system

"Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point, 1865-1866" by Carleton Watkins. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lent by Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.