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Jackson, William Henry
American (1843-1942)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Castellated Rocks on the Chugwater [Painter is Sanford Robinson Gifford]
ALBUM TITLE: Henry Gannett album.

August 9, 1870
albumen print
12.6 x 18.5 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 38898
74:0041:0134

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Jackson, William Henry. --Descriptive Catalogue of the Photographs of the USGS of the Territories for the Years 1869 to 1875 Inclusive.-- Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1875. p. 11.//
Ostroff, Eugene. --Western Views, Eastern Visions.-- Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1981. p. 28.//
Hales, Peter B. --William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape.-- Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. p. 91.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"American Photography: 1839-1900", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 29, 1989 - January 7, 1990.//
"Through The Lens", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, June 22, 1996 -.//

INSCRIPTION: (no inscriptions)

NOTES: Catalogued 2/86, SB. Figure seated holding paint box is the landscape painter Sanford Robinson Gifford, he is painting a small landscape titled --Valley of the Chugwater, Wyoming Territory--, which is now in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum. See Carol Clark, --Thomas Moran: Watercolors of the American West--. (Texas: University of Texas Press for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1980.) pg. 13.

SUBJECTS:
personage, artist / Gifford, Sanford Robinson
landscape, mountain

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