Carleton E. Watkins

'Mirror Lake, Yosemite'

Lot Closed

April 7, 04:47 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of an Important Midwestern Collection

Carleton E. Watkins

1829 - 1916

'Mirror Lake, Yosemite'

mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted, the photographer's letterpress label, with the titile, series number '842,' series title, and his '427 Montgomery Street, San Francisco' studio address, affixed to the mount, the 'Gordon L. Bennett Collection' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1878-81

image: 21 ¼ by 15 ¼ in. (54 by 38.7 cm.)

frame: 34 ¼ by 27 ¾ in. (87 by 70.5 cm.)

The Old Book Store, San Francisco, 1967

Sotheby's New York, The Gordon L. Bennett Collection of Carleton Watkins New Series Photographs of Yosemite, 28 April 2004, Sale 7966, Lot 50

Weston Naef, In Focus: Carleton Watkins (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), pl. 21

Douglas R. Nickel, Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999) pl. 33 (this print)

Focus Gallery, San Francisco, Early Views of Yosemite and the California Missions: Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins from the Collection of Gordon Bennett, November – December 1973

Monterey Museum of Art, Carleton E. Watkins: Yosemite Photographs, Courtesy of Gordon L. Bennett, June – September 1993

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception, May – September 1999, and thereafter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 1999 – January 2000; and the National Gallery of Art, February – April 2000