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Carleton Watkins, [Coast View off Mendocino]
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Carleton Watkins

[Coast View off Mendocino]

negative 1863; print about 1866

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
38.1 × 51.9 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-220798

The coastline along Mendocino was more rugged than any previously encountered by Carleton Watkins, who had traveled by schooner up the coast to the town in the fall of 1863 at the invitation of a lumber mill owner. This image of fog clinging along the edges of jagged bluffs reveals his concern for situations where the static and dynamic elements of nature overlap, a reoccurring theme in his work.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

  • negative 1863; print about 1866 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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