Plate 32. Hanging Rock, Foot of Echo Canon
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 22.9 × 29.6 cm (9 × 11 5/8 in.) page size: 32.4 × 46 cm (12 3/4 × 18 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Avalon Fund and New Century Fund
Accession Number
2016.155.1.32
Art Historical Context
Behold *Plate 32. Hanging Rock, Foot of Echo Canyon*, a stunning albumen print by Andrew Joseph Russell from 1869. Capturing the dramatic landscape at the base of Hanging Rock in Utah's Echo Canyon, this photograph showcases towering rock formations and rugged terrain, evoking the awe-inspiring vastness of the American West. Measuring 22.9 × 29.6 cm, it was part of a larger album page (32.4 × 46 cm), highlighting its role in grand documentary series. Russell, a pioneering Civil War photographer turned chronicler of the transcontinental railroad, documented the Union Pacific's grueling constru...
About the Artist
Andrew Joseph Russell · 1830–1902
Andrew Joseph Russell (1829–1902) was a pioneering American photographer whose work captured the raw drama of the Civil War and the monumental engineering of the transcontinental railroad. Born on March 20, 1829, in Walpole, New Hampshire, to Joseph Russell and Harriet Robinson, he grew up in Nunda, New York, where he developed an early passion for painting, creating portraits, landscapes, and eve...