Eadweard J. Muybridge, Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford
Severance Fund, 1990.133 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Eadweard J. Muybridge

Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford

1872

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Dimensions
43.1 × 54.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-191627

Early in a long, creative career distinguished by landmark studies of animal and human motion, Eadweard J. Muybridge created a remarkable group of photographs of Yosemite Valley in California. During his second journey there, lasting from June through November 1872, he made his most significant and extensive body of landscape photographs, many taken with mammoth glass plate negatives measuring 20 x 24 inches. This image of the valley from Rocky Ford is one of his most luminous and sublime views. Taken in early morning light, this carefully framed and dramatically lit photograph reveals Muybri…

Provenance

Severance Fund, 1990.133

Registry history

  • 1872 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs

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