Plate 41. Weber Canon, from below Devil's Gate
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 21 × 28 cm (8 1/4 × 11 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
2016.155.1.41
Art Historical Context
**Plate 41. Weber Canon, from below Devil's Gate** (1869) is a captivating albumen print by Andrew Joseph Russell, a pioneering American photographer renowned for documenting the of the transcontinental railroad. This 21 × 28 cm image, part of his *Weber Canon* series, offers a dramatic vista from beneath the towering Devil's Gate—a narrow, rocky chasm in Utah's rugged Weber Canyon. Russell's composition masterfully the steep cliffs and winding river, emphasizing the formidable terrain that challenged Union Pacific engineers during the railroad's frantic 1869 completion. Albumen prints, made ...
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...