50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
Carleton E. Watkins
'The Garrison, Columbia River'
Lot Closed
April 21, 02:21 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Carleton E. Watkins
1829 - 1916
'The Garrison, Columbia River'
a plate from the album Photographs of theColumbia River and Oregon (San Francisco: C. E. Watkins, 1872), mammoth-plate albumen print, on the original two-toned folio mount, with title in a contemporary calligraphic hand in ink, framed, circa 1867
image: 15 ¾ by 20 ⅝ in. (40 by 52.4 cm.)
frame: 29 by 33 ¾ in. (73.7 by 85.7 cm.)
Swann Galleries, New York, 10 May 1979
Collection of Margaret W. Weston
Sotheby's New York, Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston, 25 April 2007, Sale 8387, Lot 20, Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., as agent
James Alinder, Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (Carmel: The Friends of Photography in Association with the Weston Gallery, 1979), pl. 23
Douglas R. Nickel, Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999), pl. 50
Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston (Monterey Museum of Art, 2003), p. 57
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception, May - September 1999, and traveling thereafter to:
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 1999 - January 2000
Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, February - April 2000
Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003