Artist: Carleton E Watkins ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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First View of the Valley
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Oso House
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Railroad Down the Mountain
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Chinese Quarter
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Down the Valley, Yosemite
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Ferryboat, Solano
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Among The Tree Tops - Calaveras Grove
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Cypress Point, Monterey
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City Front from Rincon Hill in 1860
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Giant Redwood, Santa Cruz
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Chinese Actor
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Mechanics Institute Exhibition
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Dalles, Extremes of High & Low
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Carleton E. Watkins Pony and Buggy hand colored photograph 1874
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Thurlow Lodge Umbrella
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Cathedral Spires - Yo Semite
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Thurlow Lodge, Menlo Park - Lawn and House
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Eagle Creek, Columbia River
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Inverted in Tide Stand
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Albion River, Mendocino County, California
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Young Orchard, Palermo, Butte County
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Howard Residence, San Mateo
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Coast View off Mendocino
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River View - Down the Valley - Yo Semite
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Section of the Grizzly Giant
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Sentinel, View of the Valley
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Gibson Beach, Point Lobos, Monterey County
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Dams and Lake, Nevada County, Distant View
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Tutucanula - El Capitan 3600 ft. Yo Semite
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Yosemite Valley from the Best General View
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Agassiz Column, Yosemite
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Solar Eclipse from Mount Santa Lucia
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Smelting Works, New Almaden
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Malakoff Diggings
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Carleton E. Watkins Sunset at Lake Tahoe Albumen print 19th - 20th century
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Artist: Carleton E. Watkins Title: River View Towards North Dome Date: about 1866 Medium: albumen
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Cape Horn, Nevada County, California, CPRR
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Multnomah Falls, Columbia River, Oregon
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Black Point, San Francisco
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Oswego Ironworks, Willamette River
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Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon
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Thurlow Lodge - Lawn View
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Redwood Tree, Santa Cruz, California
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Dam and Lake, Nevada County, Near View
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Yo Semite Falls. 2630 ft.
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San Fernando Tunnel, Los Angeles County, SPRR
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Yosemite Valley Panorama
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San Francisco, Carleton Emmons Watkins (United States, New York, Oneonta, 1829-11-11 - 1916-06-23) , circa 1868, Albumen print
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The Cliff House, San Francisco
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Part of the Trunk of the Grizzly Giant
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Among the Treetops, Calaveras Grove
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The Bullion Mine, Virginia City, Nevada
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Sea Lion Rock, the Cliff House, San Francisco, Carleton Emmons Watkins (United States, New York, Oneonta, 1829-11-11 - 1916-06-23) , circa 1868, Albumen print
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The Golden Gate, from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, Carleton Emmons Watkins (United States, New York, Oneonta, 1829-11-11 - 1916-06-23) , circa 1868, Albumen print
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Oswego Ironworks, Willamette River
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Multnomah Falls, Columbia River, Oregon
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Eagle Creek, Columbia River, Carleton Emmons Watkins (United States, New York, Oneonta, 1829-11-11 - 1916-06-23) , 1867, Albumen print
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Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove - 33 ft. Diam.
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Washington Column, Carleton Emmons Watkins (United States, New York, Oneonta, 1829-11-11 - 1916-06-23) , 1866 circa, printed 1866 circa, Albumen print
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View from Mount Josephine North

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Index - Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation: Deimantas Narkevicius: The Role of A Lifetime
Issues surrounding the document are recurrent in the works by Deimantas Narkevicius. He has consequently used the media of film to explore complex and personal stories against the background of the political changes that his home country has been ...
City Gallery Wellington: Heavenly Chance: Denys Watkins
Watkins worked with Vietnamese artisans in a traditional lacquer workshop to produce a series of richly coloured abstract panels. The exhibition also includes 3D work based on his experiences in Hanoi. Drafting scale drawings for the panels aft...
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu: Picturing the Peninsula: Artists and Te Pataka o Te Rakaihautu
Banks Peninsula has an extremely rich history in terms of geology, as well as its Maori and colonial history, says Peter Vangioni. “The region has changed dramatically during the last 160 years, from a once densely forested landscape to largely pa...
Cantor Arts Center Stanford University: Yosemite's Structure and Textures: Photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Others
The inaccessible valley was home to six Indian tribes, including the Ahwahneechee and the Yosemetes. In the early 1850s the Indians were relocated and miners and prospectors began to arrive. As word spread of the Valley's wonders, photographers so...
Detroit Institute of Arts: The Enduring Horizon: American Landscape Photographs from the Collection
Early photographic pioneers William Henry Jackson, Timothy OSullivan and Carleton Watkins chronicle and interest in the exploration of the American West during the 19th century. Also featured are images of urban and suburban ...
Fraser Gallery: Art and Technology
The exhibition includes work by Kathryn Cornelius, Claire Watkins, Scott Hutchison, Thomas Edwards, David Page and others. "We seek to explore and to show," says Fraser, "what happens when talented and creative individuals, with a proven reco...
Musee d'Orsay: Courbet and the Commune
Curator : Laurence des Cars, curator, Musée d'Orsay Catalogue : Courbet et la Commune Ed. RMN 120 pages, 30 colour ill., 15 Bb&w ill., paperback Price: ...
Orlando Museum of Art: IN PRAISE OF NATURE: ANSEL ADAMS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
During the 19th Century, photographers celebrated the unrealized potential and glory of the western landscape. Works by 19th-Century photographers ...
First Street Gallery: UPRISING: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper by Michele Liebler
Eileen Watkins in the Star Ledger, called Liebler a "soulful" painter who "has a particular gift for giving inanimate objects personalities." William Zimmer, writing in The New York Times, characterized her work by remarking that "looking outward...
Fruitmarket Gallery: At the same time somewhere else... Melik Ohanian, Pia Rönicke, SeanSnyder
Their work draws on 20th century cinematography, on journalism and the style of the documentary, and their practice combines research with a much more subjective and even poetic point of view. Based across Europe and working internationally ...
Portland Museum of Art: In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West
In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West was organized by the Dayton Art Institute. The presentation of this exhibition at the ...
Oakland Museum of California: Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000
Much of what we think of as Great American Photography is in fact Californian, said Drew Heath Johnson, Curator of Photography at OMCA. Names such as Weston, Watkins, Ansel Adams or Dorothea Lange are among the first that occur to us when we consi...
Australian Center for Photography: Pieces of Eight: A Unique Group of Photomedia Practitioners
Dean explores complex connections between personal, cultural and cinematic/literary narratives in her self portraits; Furno turns her lens to the urban environment with long exposures exploring a balance of colour, shape, texture and patte...
Sharjah Biennial: STILL LIFE - Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change
Jonathan Watkins, Curator, Sharjah Biennial 8, comments: “The Sharjah Biennial 8 is a positive contribution to an activism in the face of looming threat. It favors openness as opposed to insulation, falling in with other attempts to merge togethe...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: The Great Wide Open: Panoramic Photographs of the American West
Well-known early photographers such as Carleton E. Watkins, William H. Jackson, and Eadweard Muybridge are represented, along with contemporary photographers including Karen Halverson, Mark Klett, Gus Foster, Robert Dawson, Stuart Klipper, Cath...
First Street Gallery: Joseph D'Esposito: Odds and Ends - Recent Work
Joseph D’Esposito's objects are old tools, candy bar wrappings, ink bottles, an electric cord, bronze and gold statues of cherubs, an old telephone and typewriter. D’Esposito’s art immerses viewers into the magic by which paint transforms itself i...
Tate Britian: Nominations invited for the 2001 Turner Prize
The members of the 2001 Turner Prize Jury are:
Patricia Bickers, Editor, Art Monthly
Stuart Evans, representative of the Patrons of New Art
Robert Storr, Senior Curator, Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art,New York
Laurence Miller Gallery: The Abstracted Landscape : Work by 4 International Artists
Peter Bialobrzeski, in his series Lost in Transition, photographs rapid urbanization and industrialization by taking very long exposures, which create other-worldly colors and lighting not visible to the naked eye. Stephane Couturier embraces the...
ShanghArt: Ding Yi: Works from 1989 to 2006
Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, invited Ding Yi to hold a retrospective exhibition of his works end of last year. It was one of the rare solo exhibitions of a mainland Chinese artist in a major international museum. The exhibition was a big succes...
First Street Gallery: Twisted: The Plasticity of Form by Joseph D'Esposito
These plastic figures have a story to tell us. Some of his models are Xena, Hercules, Captain Kirk, and Spock. There are biceps and bulges with super heroic proportions. The background has bright yellow burst and uses naive typography that referen...
First Street Gallery: A New Norm - Michele Liebler
Installed in Subculture the portraits collectively communicate an ingrained social narrative. Whether she is working from her figures or from an image bank, the colored pencils, graphite, and charcoal give the pieces slightly eerie presences. The ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography: Processes, Preservation, and Conservation
The exhibition is made possible by the Henry Nias Foundation, Inc. Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explained, From its in...
Sanford L. Smith & Associates: New York Photography Fair
The show offers something for everyone. This is a downtown show, said Sanford Smith, with a mix of emerging and established dealers that appeals to both younger and seasoned ...
University of Illinois Press: Lois Ann Bock DiCosola Included in Publication: Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975
The definitive book, called Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975, published by the University of Illinois press, and edited by Barbara Love, will be housed in the Sophia Smith collection archives at Smith College, the Schlesinger Library at ...
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery: No Dead Artists Opens Its 13th Annual Exhibition
Each year hundreds of artists submit their work to a jury of renowned arts professionals and noted collectors. Participation in the show has been a springboard for several artists leading to national recognition, museum and corporate acquisitions,...
Seattle Art Museum: Only Skin Deep: Photography’s Role in Shaping America’s Identity
The curators Coco Fusco, Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Division at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Brian Wallis, ICP’s Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator, explore America’s stereotypical notions of race through more t...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Glen Dimplex Artists Award Shortlist Announced 2001
Described by 'The New York Times' as the most important American artist of his generation, Matthew Barney is best known for his 'Cremaster' film series. Slow moving ...
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: Florian Maier-Aichen: Bornemisza: Within the Context of PHotoEspana, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts
Florian Maier-Aichen (born Stuttgart 1973) began his studies in Essen (Germany) then continued his artistic training in Los Angeles where he produced some of his most celebrated images of the Californian coastline, many of them aerial views. Takin...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Expanding Horizons : Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918
"The revolutionary approach of Expanding Horizons makes a major contribution to the understanding of landscape art in North America," said Kathleen Bartels director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. "The Gallery is proud to offer visitors the first op...
ATHICA, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: Animal Instincts: Allegory and Anthropomorphism
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Kenny Aguar (Athens, GA), Matt Blanks (Athens, GA), Jill Carnes (Athens, GA); Andrew Cayce (Athens, GA); Louise Zjawin Francke (Efland, NC); Joe Havasy (Athens, GA); Ellen Jantzen (Valencia, CA); Heidi Jensen (Jackso...

Further Artwork and Information:

Carleton E. Watkins (Getty Museum)
Yosemite History: Carleton E. Watkins, photographer
Carleton E Watkins (1849 - 1917) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
The Digital Mirror - Treasures - Carleton E Watkins
Albion River, Mendocino County, California (Getty Museum)
Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
Carleton E. Watkins
City Gallery - Carleton E. Watkins
Watkins (Carleton E.), Mendocino Coast, 1863
George Eastman House Carleton E. Watkins Series

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