Wall in the Grand Canyon, Colorado River
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 27.62 x 20.32 cm (10 7/8 x 8 in.) plate: 35.56 x 28.26 cm (14 x 11 1/8 in.) mount: 50.32 x 40.16 cm (19 13/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2006.133.112
About the Artist
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1840–present
Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840–1882) was a pioneering American photographer whose unflinching lens captured the raw devastation of the Civil War and the sublime vastness of the untamed West. Born in New York City—or possibly Ireland, with his family migrating soon after—his early life remains sparsely documented. As a teenager, he apprenticed under Mathew Brady at the famed daguerreotype studio on...