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Carleton Watkins, [City Front from Rincon Hill in 1860]
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Carleton Watkins

[City Front from Rincon Hill in 1860]

1860–1862

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
25.1 × 41.6 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-770292

Although the foreground is a velvety black, the buildings receding behind the New York Grocery & Liquor Store become progressively lighter towards the horizon. The setting sun bathes the facades in light, showing that Carleton Watkins made this exposure late in the afternoon. He took the picture near the present-day anchor of the Bay Bridge, on the east side of the San Francisco peninsula. Before he ever began photographing in the wilderness, Watkins made his earliest outside-the-studio images of the buildings and cities around him--first San Jose, California, and then San Francisco.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

  • 1860–1862 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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