Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West
Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West
Property from a Private Collection, New York
Carleton E. Watkins
Yosemite Valley, from Big Oak Flat Road
Session begins in
January 24, 05:00 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Bid
35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, New York
Carleton E. Watkins
1829 - 1916
Yosemite Valley, from Big Oak Flat Road
numbered, titled, and credited 801. The Gate to the Yosemite Valley. Watkins, S. F. (in the negative); the photographer’s letterpress label, with the title, series number 801, series title, and his 427 Montgomery Street, San Francisco studio address (on the mount); the Gordon L. Bennett collection stamp (on the reverse)
mammoth-plate albumen print, mounted
14 ⅞ by 21 ⅛ in.
37.8 by 53.7 cm.
Executed in 1878-81.
The Old Book Store, San Francisco
Collection of Gordon L. Bennett, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 1967)
Sotheby’s New York, The Gordon L. Bennett Collection of Carleton Watkins New Series Photographs of Yosemite, 28 April 2004, Sale 7966, Lot 52
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis, Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011, cat. no. 129, illustrated
San Francisco, Focus Gallery, 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 Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Washington, D. C., The National Gallery of Art, Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception, May 1999 - April 2000
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