Photographs
Photographs
Andrew Russell
'Granite Canon, From The Water Tank'
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April 13, 08:19 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Andrew Joseph Russell
1830 - 1902
'Granite Canon, From The Water Tank'
albumen print, plate 2 from The Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views Across the Continent; Taken Along the Line of the Union Pacific Railroad, West from Omaha, Nebraska (New York: Published by Authority of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1869), mounted, printed title and 'Plate 2' on the mount, 1867, printed circa 1869
image: 9 by 12 ¼ in. (22.9 by 31.1 cm.)
Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (Washington, D. C.: The National Gallery of Art, 1989), pl. 97
Glenn Willumson, Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad (Berkeley, 2013), fig. 19
Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, May - July 1989, and traveling thereafter to:
The Art Institute of Chicago September – November, 1989
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 1989 – February, 1990