Photographs

Timothy O'Sullivan

'Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N.M.'

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April 5, 06:41 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Timothy O'Sullivan

1840 - 1882

'Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N.M.'

albumen print, on the two-toned Wheeler Survey mount, the photographer's credit, title, 'No. 10,' survey information and decorative cartouche in letterpress on the mount, framed, 1873

image: 10 ⅞ by 7 ⅞ in. (27.6 by 20.2 cm.)

frame: 20 ¾ by 16 ¾ in. (52.8 by 42.7 cm.)

Beaumont Newhall and Nancy Newhall, T. H. O'Sullivan: Photographer (Rochester: The George Eastman House, 1966), pl. 37

James D. Horan, Timothy O'Sullivan: America's Forgotten Photographer (New York, 1966), p. 310

Joel Snyder, American Frontiers: Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1867-1874 (Aperture, 1981), p. 95

Rick Dingus, The Photographic Artifacts of Timothy O'Sullivan (Albuquerque, 1982), fig. 17

Weston J. Naef and James N. Wood, Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1975), pl. 62

Dover Publications, Wheeler's Photographic Survey of the American West, 1871-1873 (New York, 1983), frontispiece and pl. 41

Daniel Wolf, The American Space: Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography (Middletown, 1983), pl. 58

Oliver Mathews, Early Photographs and Early Photographers: a Survey in Dictionary Form (London, 1973), pl. 138

Robin Kelsey, Archive Style: Photographs & Illustrations for U. S. Surveys, 1850 - 1890 (Berkeley, 2007), fig. 1, p. 2