Limestone Walls, Kanab Wash, Colorado River
1872
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Weston J. Naef, in memory of Edward Dawes Meanor, 1979
Accession Number
1979.675.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the dramatic vastness of the American Southwest with William Bell's *Limestone Walls, Kan Wash, Colorado River*1872), an albumen silver print from a glass that captures the towering, striated limestone formations along this rugged tributary of the Colorado River. the official photographer for Lieutenant George M. Wheeler's U.S. Army expedition surveying the West from 1869 to 1879, Bell documented uncharted territories with a keen eye for nature's sublime power. This image, likely taken during the 1871-1872 Colorado River campaign, reveals the raw geology of what would later inspire a...