Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon

Artist Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829 - 1916)

CultureAmerican

Date1867

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 5/8 × 20 1/2 in. (39.7 × 52.1 cm)
Overall: 24 7/8 × 29 7/8 in. (63.2 × 75.9 cm)
Overall, Mat: 26 × 31 15/16 in. (66 × 81.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number80.1

Not on view

DescriptionThis is an albumen print photograph of a creek in Yosemite park. Tall pine trees frame the foreground; a snow-topped mountain is visible in the background.

Label TextCarleton E. Watkins American, 1829–1916 Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon, 1867 Albumen print (photograph) Museum purchase 80.1 Exhibition History"Nineteenth Century Mammoth Plates of the American West," The Chrysler Museum, December 1979 - January 1980. "Photographs from The Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, February 26 - April 23, 1989. "A History of Photography: 15 Years at the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., September 11, 1993 - March 6, 1994. "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004. "Photographic Histories," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, May 10 - August 17, 2014.Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson, _Nineteenth Century Mammoth Plates of the American West_, exh. cat., The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1979. Brooks Johnson, _Photography Speaks: 66 Photographers on Their Art_ (Norfolk, Va.: Aperature/The Chrysler Museum, 1989), 18-19. Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 107, fig. 128. ISBN: 978-0-940744-72-1