Cape Horn, near Celilo, Columbia River.
about 1867
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-742233
Carleton E. Watkins placed his camera low to the ground to capture these railroad tracks emerging in the foreground only to recede into the middle distance and then disappear out of the line of vision. Such compositions were popular in railroad photography. They seemed to encapsulate the spirit of travel by rail, heading off into an unknown, distant landscape. Watkins returned to this central Oregon area numerous times over the years, evidently fascinated with the landscape of the Columbia River basin.
Provenance
Gift of Weston J. and Mary M. Naef
Registry history
- about 1867 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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