Putting in Elevator, Golden Feather, Oroville
1891 · albumen print
image/sheet: 38.3 × 54.5 cm (15 1/16 × 21 7/16 in.)
mount: 43.7 × 58.6 cm (17 3/16 × 23 1/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art
WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture
Carleton E. Watkins
Artist
PrintmakingPhotography
Representation
None documented
9
Institutional Exhibitions
282
Works in Collection
294
Assets Indexed
1
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Photography
Related Artists
No edges recorded
Influence Graph
No influence edges encoded yet.
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
View all exhibitions →No image
Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840�1985
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
No image
From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984–1985
No image
American Landscapes
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
No image
Photography for Collectors
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
No image
Steichen Gallery Reinstallation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
About
Why this artist matters now
Carleton E. Watkins was an American photographer who pioneered large-format landscape photography in the nineteenth century, creating monumental albumen prints that documented the American West with unprecedented technical precision and compositional grandeur. Working with mammoth plate cameras, he produced iconic images of Yosemite Valley, the Columbia River Gorge, and railroad routes that shaped visual perceptions of westward expansion. His photographs combined commercial enterprise with aesthetic ambition, establishing landscape photography as a major artistic medium in the post-Civil War era.
Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
Photography
Medium
Printmaking
Related Artists
12 in graph
Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (282)
View all 282 artworks →
Record
Images
Related artists
Adjacent in the graph
Richard Long
Shared movement
Bradford Washburn
Shared movement
Andrea Büttner
Shared movement
Sabelo Mlangeni
Shared movement
Roger Ballen
Shared movement
Arnold Eagle
Shared movement
Christopher Williams
Also printmaking
Dana Schutz
Also printmaking
Joe Bradley
Also printmaking
Marcel Janco
Also printmaking
Milton Glaser
Also printmaking
Alfred Rudolph
Also printmaking
Record
Movements and affiliations
Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Smithsonian American Art Museum
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
National Gallery of Art
Record